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U+52F8, 勸
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-52F8

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified

Han character

(Kangxi radical 19, +17, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿土大尸 (TGKS), four-corner 44227, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 150, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2486
  • Dae Jaweon: page 338, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 382, character 18
  • Unihan data for U+52F8

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *kʰons) : phonetic (OC *koːns) + semantic (strength).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • khoàn - literary;
  • khǹg/khùiⁿ - vernacular.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (29)
Final () (66)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
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
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
quàn
Middle
Chinese
‹ khjwonH ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.qʷʰar-s/
English encourage

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 4501
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰons/

Definitions

  1. to encourage; to recommend
  2. to advise; to urge; to exhort
      ―  quàngào  ―  to advise
  3. to appeal
      ―  quànjià  ―  to conciliate (in a fight or quarrel)
  4. a surname: Quan

Synonyms

  • (to encourage):
  • (to urge):

Compounds

Descendants

  • Vietnamese: khuyên

Japanese

Shinjitai

Kyūjitai

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanjikyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

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Readings

  • Go-on: こん (kon)
  • Kan-on: けん (ken)
  • Kan’yō-on: かん (kan)
  • Kun: すすめる (susumeru)

Korean

Hanja

(eumhun 권할 (gwonhal gwon))

  1. hanja form? of (recommend, advise, urge)

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: khuyến, khuyên

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