槓

槓 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 木一月金 (DMBC), four-corner 4198₆, composition ⿰木貢)

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 546, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15343
• Dae Jaweon: page 934, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1260, character 4
• Unihan data for U+69D3

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声) : semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 貢 (OC *koːŋs).

槓

1. thick rod; thick pole
2. (gymnastics) bar

   雙槓／双杠  ―  shuānggàng  ―  parallel bars

3. stout poles used to carry a coffin
4. rod-shaped part of a machine

   保險槓／保险杠  ―  bǎoxiǎngàng  ―  bumper

5. thick line (Classifier: 道 m)
6. to cross out; to strike out
7. to whet
8. to argue; to bicker

   Synonym: 抬槓 / 抬杠 (táigàng)

9. (mahjong) kong

• When playing mahjong, this word is said as a call when declaring a kong.

• English: kong
• Japanese: 槓(カン) (kan)

槓

1. (Cantonese) Alternative form of 籠 / 笼 (“trunk; chest; large box”)

• “槓”, 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–

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. lever

• Go-on: こう (kō)
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Tō-on: カン (kan)
• Kun: てこ (teko, 槓)

• 槓(こう)桿(かん) (kōkan, “lever”)

From Mandarin 槓 / 杠 (gàng).^[1][2]

• IPA^(key):

槓(カン) • (kan) 

1. (mahjong) Short for 槓子 (kantsu): a set of four identical tiles
2. (mahjong) a call for such a set (compare English kong):
   1. for a 明槓 (minkan, “open kan”), the player calling should have a 暗刻 (ankō, “closed triplet”) in hand and the current discarded tile is the fourth tile
   2. for a 加槓 (kakan, “added kan”), the player should have an 明刻 (minkō, “open triplet”) beforehand and the fourth tile must be self-drawn
   3. for an 暗槓 (ankan, “closed kan”), the player calling must simply have all four tiles in hand

• 吃(チー) (chī, “call for a sequence”, compare English chow)
• 碰(ポン) (pon, “call for an open triplet”, compare English pung)

槓 • (gong) (hangeul 공, revised gong, McCune–Reischauer kong, Yale kong)

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槓: Hán Nôm readings: cổng

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