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Translingual
Han character
慣 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 心田十金 (PWJC), four-corner 97086, composition ⿰忄貫)
Descendants
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 399, character 13
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11111
- Dae Jaweon: page 739, character 1
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2349, character 1
- Unihan data for U+6163
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 毌
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*koːn, *koːns
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| 貫
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*koːn, *koːns
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| 樌
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*koːns
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| 鏆
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*koːns
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| 遦
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*koːns
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| 慣
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*kroːns
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| 摜
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*kroːns
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| 瑻
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*kuːn
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| 謴
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*kuːns
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kroːns): semantic 忄 (“heart”) + phonetic 貫 (OC *koːn, *koːns) – habit is what one does by heart.
Pronunciation
Note:
- gáing - vernacular (“accustomed”);
- guáng - literary.
Note:
- koàn - literary;
- kòaiⁿ/kùiⁿ - vernacular.
Note:
- guang3 - Shantou;
- guêng3 - Chaozhou;
- guin3 - dialectal usage (in 慣性).
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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慣
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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guàn
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ kwænH ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*kˁro-s/
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| English
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accustomed to
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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.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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慣
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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4471
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Phonetic
component
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毌
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Rime
group
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元
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Rime
subdivision
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3
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Corresponding
MC rime
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慣
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Old
Chinese
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/*kroːns/
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| Notes
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爾雅作貫，貫轉註字
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Definitions
慣
- to be accustomed to; to be used to
- to spoil; to overindulge
- (literary, or in compounds) habit; custom
- (literary, or in compounds) habitually; usually
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of
習慣 (“to get used to; to be accustomed to”)
- 動輒 / 动辄 (dòngzhé) (literary)
- 常常 (chángcháng)
- 常時 / 常时 (chángshí)
- 往往 (wǎngwǎng)
- 時常 / 时常 (shícháng)
- 時時 / 时时 (shíshí)
- 每每 (měiměi)
- 終古 / 终古 (zhōnggǔ) (literary)
- 經常 / 经常 (jīngcháng)
Compounds
References
- “慣”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
- 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “惯”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 81.
Japanese
Kanji
慣
(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)
Readings
Etymology
From Middle Chinese 慣 (MC kwaenH).
Pronunciation
Affix
慣 • (kan) ←くわん (kwan)?
- used to; accustomed; custom; habit
Compounds
Korean
Etymology
From Middle Chinese 慣 (MC kwaenH).
Hanja
慣 (eumhun 버릇 관 (beoreut gwan))
- hanja form? of 관 (“custom; habit”)
Compounds
- 관례 (慣例, gwallye, “convention, precedent”)
- 관성 (慣性, gwanseong, “inertia”)
- 관습 (慣習, gwanseup, “custom, convention”)
- 관용 (慣用, gwanyong, “common usage”)
- 관용구 (慣用句, gwanyonggu, “idiom”)
- 관용음 (慣用音, gwanyong'eum)
- 관행 (慣行, gwanhaeng, “customary practice”)
- 구관 (舊慣, gugwan, “old custom”)
- 습관 (習慣, seupgwan, “habit”)
References
- 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.
Vietnamese
Han character
慣: Hán Nôm readings: quen, quán
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