眷

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眷 U+7737, 眷
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7737
← 眶
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 眸 →

Translingual

Han character

眷 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 火手月山 (FQBU), four-corner 90603, composition ⿱龹目(GHT) or ⿱𠔉目(JKV))

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 807, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23311
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1222, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2487, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+7737

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 眷
alternative forms 睠

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 眷
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
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 *krons) : phonetic 龹 () + semantic 目 (“eye”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 眷
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 仙 (80)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 居倦切
Baxter kjwenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kˠiuᴇnH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kʷᵚiɛnH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kiuænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kwianH/
Li
Rong 		/kjuɛnH/
Wang
Li 		/kĭwɛnH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ki̯wɛnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		juàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gyun3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 眷
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		juàn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kjwenH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ro-s/
English look on with affection

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 眷
Reading # 1/1
No. 7158
Phonetic
component
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		眷
Old
Chinese 		/*krons/

Definitions

眷

  1. (obsolete) to look back
  2. (literary) to take interest in; to care for
    眷顧／眷顾  ―  juàngù  ―  to be concerned about
    眷戀／眷恋  ―  juànliàn  ―  to think fondly of
  3. relatives
    親眷／亲眷  ―  qīnjuàn  ―  relatives
    眷屬／眷属  ―  juànshǔ  ―  relatives
  4. a surname

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

眷

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): けん (ken)
  • Kun: かえりみる (kaerimiru)

Korean

Hanja

眷 (eum 권 (gwon))

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Vietnamese

Han character

眷: Hán Nôm readings: quyến, quấn, cuốn, quẹn

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