款

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See also: 欵
款 U+6B3E, 款
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6B3E
← 欽
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 欿 →

Translingual

Han character

款 (Kangxi radical 76, 欠+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 土火弓人 (GFNO), four-corner 47982, composition ⿰⿱士示欠)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 569, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16107
  • Dae Jaweon: page 957, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2141, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6B3E

Chinese

trad. 款
simp. # 款
2nd round simp. 𤘯
alternative forms
欵
歀
㱁
𣢻
𣣙
欵
歀
㱁
𣢻
𣣙
𣤂
 

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (款) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
款 *kʰloːnʔ
欵 *kʰloːnʔ
歀 *kʰloːnʔ
窾 *kʰloːnʔ

Originally 歀 (kuài), phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : phonetic 柰 (OC *naːds) + semantic 欠 (“lacking, desire”), meaning “desire”. The 木 component was simplified into 士 via libian, similar to 隸→隷.

Shuowen Jiezi interprets it as phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʰloːnʔ) : abbreviated phonetic 窾 (OC *kʰloːnʔ) + semantic 欠 (“lacking, desire”).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • Xiamen, Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Taiwan:
    • khóaⁿ - vernacular;
    • khoán - literary.
Note:
  • kuang2 - Shantou;
  • kuêng2 - Chaozhou.
Rime
Character 款
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 桓 (62)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 苦管切
Baxter khwanX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kʰuɑnX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kʰʷɑnX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kʰuɑnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kʰwanX/
Li
Rong 		/kʰuɑnX/
Wang
Li 		/kʰuɑnX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/kʰuɑnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		kuǎn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		fun2
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 款
Reading # 1/1
No. 7508
Phonetic
component 		款
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		款
Old
Chinese 		/*kʰloːnʔ/

Definitions

款

  1. money (of certain kind)
    借款  ―  jièkuǎn  ―  loan
    存款  ―  cúnkuǎn  ―  deposit
  2. model, type
    幾款車／几款车 [Cantonese]  ―  gei2 fun2 ce1   ―  several types of cars
    同款手機／同款手机 [Cantonese]  ―  tung4 fun2 sau2 gei1   ―  same model of phone
  3. signature
  4. (law) subsection; subparagraph; subclause (in bills)
  5. (Southern Min, Cantonese) appearance; being
    衰款 [Cantonese]  ―  seoi1 fun2   ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  6. (Hokkien) Classifier for varieties: kind; sort; type ⇒ all nouns using this classifier

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 種 (“kind (classifier for varieties)”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 種, 類
Northeastern Mandarin Taiwan 種
Malaysia 種
Singapore 種
Cantonese Guangzhou 種, 隻
Hong Kong 種, 隻
Southern Min Tainan 種, 款
Penang (Hokkien) 種
Singapore (Hokkien) 種, 款
Manila (Hokkien) 款
Zhongshan Min Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi) 種, 隻
Wu Shanghai 種, 樣

Compounds

See also

References

  1. ^ 李學勤，2012《字源》，天津：天津古籍出版社，2013年7月2次印刷。p. 768

Further reading

Japanese

Kanji

款

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
款
かん
Grade: S
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 款 (MC khwanX).

Pronunciation

Noun

款(かん) • (kan) ←くわん (kwan)?

  1. intimacy; friendship
  2. section of an article in a law, code, etc.

Affix

款(かん) • (kan) ←くわん (kwan)?

  1. intimacy; friendship
  2. signature; sign and seal
  3. articles or clauses of an agreement, document of proof, etc.
  4. expense; money; funds

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

款: Hán Nôm readings: khoản

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