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U+56F0, 困
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-56F0

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Stroke order
7 strokes

Han character

(Kangxi radical 31, +4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 田木 (WD) or 難田木 (XWD), four-corner 60904, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 217, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4717
  • Dae Jaweon: page 445, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 714, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+56F0

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shang Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意会意) : (surround) + (wood). Probably the original form of (OC *ŋɡuːn, *kʰuːnʔ, “doorsill”) and (OC *kʰuːnʔ, “doorsill”).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation


Note: wan3 - vernacular.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (29)
Final () (55)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter khwonH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰuənH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰuonH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰuənH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰwənH/
Li
Rong
/kʰuənH/
Wang
Li
/kʰuənH/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/kʰuənH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
kùn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
fan3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
kùn
Middle
Chinese
‹ khwonH ›
Old
Chinese
/*kʰˁu-s/
English obstruct; distress

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. 7554
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰuːns/

Definitions

  1. to surround; to besiege
  2. to be surrounded; to be trapped
    𨋢 [Cantonese]  ―  wan3 lip1   ―  to be trapped in an elevator
  3. (Cantonese) to lock up; to detain
  4. difficult
  5. 47th hexagram of the I Ching
  6. (Teochew, Hainanese) hungry
Synonyms

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“sleepy; tired; to sleep”).
(This character is the simplified and variant form of ).
Notes:

References

Japanese

Kanji

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. trouble

Readings

  • Go-on: こん (kon, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: こん (kon, Jōyō)
  • Kun: こまる (komaru, 困る, Jōyō)くるしむ (kurushimu, 困しむ)

Korean

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun 괴로울 (goeroul gon))

  1. hanja form? of (suffer)
  2. hanja form? of (surround, besiege)

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: khốn, khuôn

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