管

Stroke order

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

• 𪴌, 𤪔, 䌣, 䲘(鳤), 𤻥

• 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

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

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！

     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。
    台湾人管花生也叫土豆。

    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. (Zhangzhou Hokkien) measuring tool of half a sheng (升 (shēng))
16. a surname

    管寧／管宁  ―  Guǎn Níng  ―  Guan Ning

• (writing brush):

• (to concern oneself with):

• (to assure):

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

管

1. (Hokkien, Teochew) tube; pipe; short cylinder

   火管   ―  hé-kóng   ―  blowpipe (for cooking)

2. (Xiamen, Quanzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) Classifier for tube; pipe.

   一管水   ―  chi̍t kóng chúi   ―  a tube of water

3. (Teochew) ladle

管

1. (Hokkien) used in 頷管／颔管, alternative form of 頷頸 / 颔颈

• “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–

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

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

• 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)

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

• (Tokyo) かん (Atamadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

管(かん) • (kan) ^{←くわん (kwan)?}

1. pipe
2. a wind instrument

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

• (Tokyo) くだ (Atamadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

管(くだ) • (kuda) 

1. a pipe or tube, such as that made of bamboo, wood, metal, or rubber
2. a pirn or bobbin that hold the thread within a weaving shuttle (from the way the earliest shuttles were made from bamboo tubes)
3. spool onto which thread is reeled on a spinning wheel
4. (military) 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 thresh 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”)

管 (eumhun 피리 관 (piri gwan))

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

管: Hán Nôm readings: quản

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