管

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

管 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 竹十口口 (HJRR), four-corner 8877₇, composition ⿱𥫗官)

Derived characters

• 𪴌, 𤪔, 䌣, 䲘(鳤), 𤻥

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 889, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26162
• Dae Jaweon: page 1316, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2986, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7BA1

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *koːnʔ) : semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 官 (OC *koːn).

Pronunciation

Definitions

管

1. (music) a cylindrical double-reed woodwind instrument made of bamboo or wood
2. (music, by extension) any wind instrument
3. (by extension) slender tubular hollow object; pipe; tube; duct; canal; valve; fistula

   吸管  ―  xīguǎn  ―  straw

4. (literary) calligraphy brush; inkbrush
5. Classifier for tube-shaped objects.
6. to administer; to manage; to control; to be in charge

   管理  ―  guǎnlǐ  ―  to manage

7. to subject someone to discipline; to discipline
8. to concern oneself with; to interfere with

   • 你管他作甚！ [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: Various editors. c. 13th century. A Collection of Conversations of Master Zhu (《朱子語類》)

     Nǐ guǎn tā zuòshèn!

     Why mind them at all!

9. to be responsible for the provision of; to provide; to supply
10. to assure; to guarantee; to ensure; to keep
11. despite; regardless of; irrespective of
12. (colloquial) used in the pattern 管……叫…… (“to call (someone/something the name of)”), where 管 is followed by the entity that is being called a name

    臺灣人管花生也叫土豆。 [MSC, trad.]
    台湾人管花生也叫土豆。 [MSC, simp.]

    Táiwānrén guǎn huāshēng yě jiào tǔdòu.

    Taiwanese people also call peanuts 土豆.

13. (dialectal, colloquial) indicates the object of an action: to
14. (Sichuanese) to be worth
15. a surname

    管寧／管宁  ―  Guǎn Níng  ―  Guan Ning

Synonyms

• (writing brush):

• (to concern oneself with):

• (to assure):

Compounds

Descendants

References

• “管”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. pipe
2. wind instrument
3. administer
4. brush; handle of a brush

Readings

• Go-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)^{←くわん (kwan, historical)}
• Kan-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)^{←くわん (kwan, historical)}
• Kun: くだ (kuda, 管, Jōyō); ふえ (fue, 管); つかさどる (tsukasadoru, 管る)
• Nanori: うち (uchi); すが (suga); すげ (suge)

Etymology 1

From Middle Chinese 管 (kuɑn^X, “pipe, tube”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) か​ん (Atamadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

Noun

管(かん) • (kan) ^{←くわん (kwan)?}

1. pipe
2. a wind instrument

Etymology 2

From Old Japanese 管 (kuda, “pipe, tube”).

Alternative forms

• 莩 (rare)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) く​だ (Atamadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

Noun

管(くだ) • (kuda) 

1. a pipe or tube, such as that made of bamboo, wood, metal, or rubber
2. a shuttle for weaving with a loom (from the way the earliest shuttles were made from bamboo tubes)
3. the central axis of a spindle for winding the thread
4. short for 管の笛 (kuda no fue), a kind of small pipe or flute used for signalling during a battle, similar to a fife
5. an agricultural tool, used to gather up cut rice stalks
6. short for 管狐 (kudagitsune), a kind of mythical fox roughly the size of a weasel, that would live in bamboo stalks and make prophecies of the future

References

Korean

Hanja

管 (eumhun 피리 관 (piri gwan))

1. Hanja form^? of 관 (“pipe, tube”).
2. Hanja form^? of 관 (“piri, a woodwind instrument”).

Vietnamese

Han character

管: Hán Nôm readings: quản

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