券

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See also: 劵
券 U+5238, 券
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5238
← 刷
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 刹 →

Translingual

Han character

券 (Kangxi radical 18, 刀+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 火手尸竹 (FQSH), four-corner 90227, composition ⿱龹刀(GHTJ) or ⿱𠔉刀(KV))

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 139, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1966
  • Dae Jaweon: page 316, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 332, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+5238

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 券
alternative forms 劵

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (龹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
潫 *qroːn, *qon, *qron
豢 *ɡroːns
勬 *kron, *krons
韏 *kronʔ, *ɡrons, *kʰons
眷 *krons
桊 *krons
絭 *krons, *kʰrons, *kons, *kʰons, *koɡ
觠 *krons, *ɡron
飬 *krons
弮 *kʰron, *krons
拳 *ɡron
卷 *ɡron, *kronʔ, *krons, *ɡonʔ
齤 *ɡron
券 *kʰons

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʰons) : phonetic 𠔉 () + semantic 刀 (“knife”) – contract. Ancient contracts were cut in half.

Pronunciation 1

Note: juàn(r) - colloquial pronunciation.
Note: hyun3 - prescribed.
Note:
  • kǹg - vernacular;
  • koàn - literary.
Rime
Character 券
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 元 (66)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 去願切
Baxter khjwonH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kʰʉɐnH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kʰʷiɐnH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kʰiuɐnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kʰuanH/
Li
Rong 		/kʰiuɐnH/
Wang
Li 		/kʰĭwɐnH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/kʰi̯wɐnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		quàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		hyun3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 券
Reading # 1/1
No. 7173
Phonetic
component
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		劵
Old
Chinese 		/*kʰons/

Definitions

券

  1. (historical) title deed; deed of trust; bond; contract
  2. ticket; pass; coupon; voucher; certificate
    入場券／入场券  ―  rùchǎngquàn  ―  admission ticket
  3. † (figurative) guarantee; surety; certainty
  4. † to agree; to tally with
  5. † to copy; to trace
  6. † to bore; to drill

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

券

  1. (architecture) arch (on bridges, doors, windows)
Synonyms

Compounds

Pronunciation 3

Definitions

券

  1. † Alternative form of 倦 (juàn, “tired; weary”)

Further reading

Japanese

Shinjitai 券
Kyūjitai
[1]
券󠄁
券+󠄁?
(Adobe-Japan1)
券󠄃
券+󠄃?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

券

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. ticket

Readings

  • Go-on: こん (kon)
  • Kan-on: けん (ken, Jōyō)←くゑん (kwen, historical)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
券
けん
Grade: 6
on'yomi

/kwen/ → /ken/

From Middle Chinese 券 (MC khjwonH, “ticket”).

Pronunciation

Noun

券(けん) • (ken) ←くゑん (kwen)?

  1. ticket, certificate
  2. bond, coupon

Suffix

券(けん) • (-ken) ←くゑん (-kwen)?

  1. ticket, certificate

References

  1. ^ “券”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

券 (eumhun 엄쪽 권 (eomjjok gwon))

  1. hanja form? of 권 (“certificate, ticket”)
  2. hanja form? of 권 (“title deeds”)

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

券: Hán Nôm readings: khoán

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