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U+9B08, 鬈
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9B08

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 190, +8, 18 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹火手山 (SHFQU), four-corner 72712, composition )

  1. beautiful, curly
  2. curly hair

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1455, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45490
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1986, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4529, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9B08

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (30) (29)
Final () (80) (80)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter gjwen khjwen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɡˠiuᴇn/ /kʰˠiuᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɡʷᵚiɛn/ /kʰʷᵚiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɡiuæn/ /kʰiuæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/gwian/ /kʰwian/
Li
Rong
/ɡjuɛn/ /kʰjuɛn/
Wang
Li
/ɡĭwɛn/ /kʰĭwɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/gi̯wɛn/ /kʰi̯wɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
quán quān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
kyun4 hyun1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
quán
Middle
Chinese
‹ gjwen ›
Old
Chinese
/*ʷren/
English handsome (hair?)

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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 7188 7190
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3 3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰron/ /*ɡron/

Definitions

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. fine growth of hair curly hair

Readings

  • On (unclassified): けん (ken)げん (gen)
  • Kun: うるわしい (uruwashii)

Korean

Hanja

(eum (gwon))

  1. beautiful
  2. curly hair