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See also:
U+9C25, 鰥
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9C25

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 195, +10, 21 strokes, cangjie input 弓火田中水 (NFWLE) or 弓火田中火 (NFWLF), four-corner 26333, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1475, character 40
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46382
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2007, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4706, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+9C25

Chinese

trad.
simp.
alternative forms 𬶵
𥉀
𩶊
𩻴

Glyph origin

Etymology

From (OC *kʷraːʔ, “single; alone”) + *-n (nominalizing suffix) (Schuessler, 2007). See there for more.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (28) (28)
Final () (74) (74)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division () II II
Fanqie
Baxter kwean kweanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠuɛn/ /kˠuɛnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʷᵚæn/ /kʷᵚænH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kuæn/ /kuænH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kwəɨn/ /kwəɨnH/
Li
Rong
/kuɛn/ /kuɛnH/
Wang
Li
/kwæn/ /kwænH/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/kwăn/ /kwănH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
guān guàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gwaan1 gwaan3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
guān guān
Middle
Chinese
‹ kwɛn › ‹ kwɛn ›
Old
Chinese
/*ʷˁrə/ /*ʷˁrə/
English widower a kind of fish

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. 1951 1952
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kruːn/ /*kruːns/

Definitions

  1. widower
  2. widowed
  3. (obsolete) yellowcheek (Elopichthys bambusa)
    Synonym:  / (gǎn)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. widower

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
やもめ
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
やもめ
, 鰥夫: widower
Alternative spelling
鰥夫
(This term, , is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
やもお
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
やもお
(archaic) widower
Alternative spellings
鰥夫, 寡男
(This term, , is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

(hwan) (hangeul , revised hwan, McCune–Reischauer hwan, Yale hwan)

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