菅

菅 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿十口口 (TJRR), four-corner 4477₇, composition ⿱艹官)

1. coarse grass, Themeda forskalii

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1036, character 51
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31142
• Dae Jaweon: page 1495, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3240, character 10
• Unihan data for U+83C5

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kroːn) : semantic 艹 + phonetic 官 (OC *koːn) – a type of grass.

菅

1. ^† a variety of grass (clarification of this definition is needed)
2. a surname

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

• Go-on: けん (ken)^{←けん (ken, historical)←くゑん (kwen, ancient)}
• Kan-on: かん (kan)^{←くわん (kwan, historical)}
• Kun: すげ (suge, 菅)、すが (suga, 菅)
• Nanori: す (su)、すご (sugo)

⟨suɡe₂⟩ → */suɡəɨ/ → /suɡe/

From Old Japanese.

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• (Tokyo) すげ (Heiban – )^[1]
• IPA^(key):

菅(すげ) or 菅(スゲ) • (suge) 

1. a sedge

The bound apophonic form of suge above.

菅(すが) • (suga) 

1. (rare or in compounds) a sedge

菅(すが) • (Suga) 

1. a surname

/kʷan/ → /kan/

From Middle Chinese 菅 (MC kaen).

菅(かん) • (kan) ^{←くわん (kwan)?}

1. a variety of grass
2. Sugawara no Michizane

• 菅(かん)家(け) (Kanke)
• 菅公(かんこう) (Kankō)
• 菅茅(かんぼう) (kanbō)

菅(かん) • (Kan) ^{←くわん (Kwan)?}

1. a surname

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

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菅 (suge₂) (kana すげ)

1. a sedge
   • 711–712, Kojiki, poem 65:

     夜多能比登母登須宜波古母多受多知迦阿那牟阿多良須賀波良許登袁許曾須宜波良登伊波米阿多良須賀志賣

     Yata no₂ pi₁to₂mo₂to₂ suge₂ pa ko₁ mo₂tazu tati ka arenamu atara sugapara ko₂to₂ wo ko₂so₂ suge₂para to₂ ipame₂ atara sugasime₁

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Japanese: 菅 (suge)

菅: Hán Nôm readings: gian

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