官府

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Chinese

official; government; organ of body prefecture; mansion
simp. and trad.
(官府)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (28) (1)
Final () (62) (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division () I III
Fanqie
Baxter kwan pjuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kuɑn/ /pɨoX/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʷɑn/ /pioX/
Shao
Rongfen
/kuɑn/ /pioX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kwan/ /puə̆X/
Li
Rong
/kuɑn/ /pioX/
Wang
Li
/kuɑn/ /pĭuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kuɑn/ /pi̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
guān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gun1 fu2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
guān
Middle
Chinese
‹ kwan › ‹ pjuX ›
Old
Chinese
/*kʷˁa/ /*p(r)oʔ/
English official (n.) repository

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 4435 3511
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*koːn/ /*poʔ/

Noun

官府

  1. (archaic) offices of local government
  2. (archaic) local authorities
  3. (archaic) feudal official

Derived terms