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U+5DFB, 巻
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5DFB

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Japanese
Simplified
Traditional

Alternative forms

Note that in Chinese, the bottom is , while in Japanese, the bottom is .

Han character

(Kangxi radical 49, +6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 火手尸山 (FQSU) or 難火手尸山 (XFQSU), composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 327, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8759
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 1, page 318, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5DFB

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“reel of books; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of ).

Japanese

Shinjitai

Kyūjitai

Kanji

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanjishinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form )

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
かん
Grade: 6
on'yomi
Alternative spelling
(kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese (MC gjwen|gjwonX|kjwenX|kjwenH).

Pronunciation

Noun

(かん) (kanくわん (kwan)?

  1. scroll
  2. book

Affix

(かん) (kanくわん (kwan)?

  1. reel of books
  2. book; scroll
  3. volume; chapter

Counter

(かん) (-kanくわん (-kwan)?

  1. volume of a book
  2. reel of a film

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
まき
Grade: 6
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
(kyūjitai)
For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
まき
winding
roll
a scroll or book
a volume or chapter in a larger book or series
Alternative spelling
巻き
(This term, , is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

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

Korean

Hanja

(gwon) (hangeul , revised gwon, McCune–Reischauer kwŏn)

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