諫

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See also: 諌, and 谏
諫 U+8AEB, 諫
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8AEB
← 諪
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 諬 →

Translingual

Traditional 諫
Shinjitai
(extended) 		諌
Simplified 谏

Han character

諫 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+9, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜口木田火 (YRDWF), four-corner 05696, composition ⿰訁柬)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1170, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35724
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1636, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3995, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+8AEB

Chinese

trad. 諫
simp. 谏
2nd round simp. 𫍝
alternative forms 諌／𮷅

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 諫
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (柬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蘭 *ɡ·raːn
攔 *ɡ·raːn
欄 *ɡ·raːn
瀾 *ɡ·raːn, *ɡ·raːns
讕 *ɡ·raːn, *ɡ·raːnʔ, *ɡ·raːns
闌 *ɡ·raːn
韊 *ɡ·raːn
幱 *ɡ·raːn
籣 *ɡ·raːn
躝 *ɡ·raːn
爛 *ɡ·raːns
爤 *ɡ·raːns
鑭 *ɡ·raːns
糷 *ɡ·raːns
斕 *ɡ·reːn
揀 *kreːnʔ, *ɡ·reːns
柬 *kreːnʔ
暕 *kreːnʔ
諫 *kraːns
練 *ɡ·reːns
鍊 *ɡ·reːns
煉 *ɡ·reːns
楝 *ɡ·reːns
萰 *ɡ·reːns
堜 *ɡ·reːns
湅 *ɡ·reːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kraːns) : semantic 言 (“say”) + phonetic 柬 (OC *kreːnʔ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 諫
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 刪 (69)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古晏切
Baxter kaenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kˠanH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kᵚanH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kɐnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kaɨnH/
Li
Rong 		/kanH/
Wang
Li 		/kanH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/kanH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		jiàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gaan3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 諫
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		jiàn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kaenH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*kˁranʔ(-s)/ (~ *kˁranʔ)
English admonish

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 諫
Reading # 1/1
No. 6140
Phonetic
component 		柬
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		諫
Old
Chinese 		/*kraːns/

Definitions

諫

  1. to remonstrate; to admonish

Compounds

References

Japanese

Shinjitai
(extended)

諌

Kyūjitai

諫

Kanji

諫

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 諌)

Readings

  • Go-on: けん (ken)
  • Kan-on: かん (kan)
  • Kun: いさめる (isameru, 諫める)
  • Nanori: いさむ (isamu)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
諫
かん
Hyōgai
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 諫 (MC kaenH).

Pronunciation

Noun

諫(かん) • (kan) 

  1. admonition

Affix

諫(かん) • (kan) 

  1. admonish
  2. dissuade

References

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

Korean

Hanja

諫 (eum 간 (gan))

  1. remonstrate
  2. admonish

Vietnamese

Han character

諫: Hán Nôm readings: gián

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