菅

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菅 U+83C5, 菅
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-83C5
← 菄
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 菆 →

Translingual

Han character

菅 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿十口口 (TJRR), four-corner 44777, composition ⿱艹官)

  1. coarse grass, Themeda forskalii

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1036, character 51
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31142
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1495, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3240, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+83C5

Chinese

trad. 菅
simp. # 菅

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (官) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
官 *koːn
棺 *koːn, *koːns
倌 *koːn, *kroːns
悹 *koːn, *koːnʔ, *koːns
涫 *koːn, *koːns
管 *koːnʔ
琯 *koːnʔ, *kuːns
痯 *koːnʔ, *koːns
輨 *koːnʔ
錧 *koːnʔ, *koːns
館 *koːnʔ, *koːns
婠 *koːns, *qoːn, *qruːd
悺 *koːns
逭 *ɡoːns
菅 *kroːn
綰 *qroːnʔ, *qroːns
捾 *qoːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kroːn) : semantic 艹 + phonetic 官 (OC *koːn) – a type of grass.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • kan - literary;
  • koaⁿ - vernacular.
Rime
Character 菅
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 刪 (69)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古顔切
Baxter kaen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kˠan/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kᵚan/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kɐn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kaɨn/
Li
Rong 		/kan/
Wang
Li 		/kan/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/kan/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		jiān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gaan1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 菅
Reading # 1/1
No. 4457
Phonetic
component 		官
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		姦
Old
Chinese 		/*kroːn/

Definitions

菅

  1. † a variety of grass (clarification of this definition is needed)
  2. a surname

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

菅

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
菅
すげ
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

⟨suɡe2⟩ → */suɡəɨ/ → /suɡe/

From Old Japanese.

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

Pronunciation

Noun

菅(すげ) or 菅(スゲ) • (suge) 

  1. a sedge
Derived terms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
菅
すが
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

The bound apophonic form of suge above.

Noun

菅(すが) • (suga) 

  1. (rare or in compounds) a sedge
Derived terms
Derived terms

Proper noun

菅(すが) • (Suga) 

  1. a surname

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
菅
かん
Jinmeiyō
kan’on

/kʷan/ → /kan/

From Middle Chinese 菅 (MC kaen).

Affix

菅(かん) • (kan) ←くわん (kwan)?

  1. a variety of grass
  2. Sugawara no Michizane
Derived terms

Proper noun

菅(かん) • (Kan) ←くわん (kwan)?

  1. a surname

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

菅 • (gwan) (hangeul 관, revised gwan, McCune–Reischauer kwan, Yale kwan)

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Old Japanese

Etymology

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “From Proto-Japonic *sunkay?”

Noun

菅 (suge2) (kana すげ)

  1. a sedge
    • 711–712, Kojiki, (poem 65):
      夜多能比登母登須宜波古母多受多知迦阿那牟阿多良須賀波良許登袁許曾須宜波良登伊波米阿多良須賀志賣
      Yata no2 pi1to2mo2to2 suge2 pa ko1 mo2tazu tati ka arenamu atara sugapara ko2to2 wo ko2so2 suge2para to2 ipame2 atara sugasime1
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Japanese: 菅 (suge)

Vietnamese

Han character

菅: Hán Nôm readings: gian

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