壼

See also: 壸 and 壺

壼 U+58FC, 壼 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-58FC ← 壻 [U+58FB] CJK Unified Ideographs 壽 → [U+58FD]

Translingual

Han character

壼 (Kangxi radical 33, 士+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 土月一一 (GBMM), four-corner 4010₇, composition ⿳士冖亞)

Derived characters

• 𡀄, 𣡆

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 244, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5667
• Dae Jaweon: page 484, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 476, character 5
• Unihan data for U+58FC

Chinese

trad.		壼
simp.		壸

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kǔn (kun³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kwan²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kǔn
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kǔn
    • Wade–Giles: kʻun³
    • Yale: kwǔn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: koen
    • Palladius: кунь (kunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu̯ən²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: kwan²
    • Yale: kwán
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kwan²
    • Guangdong Romanization: kuen²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷʰɐn³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: khwonX

Rime
Character	壼
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	魂 (55)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	苦本切
Baxter	khwonX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰuənX/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰuonX/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰuənX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰwənX/
Li Rong	/kʰuənX/
Wang Li	/kʰuənX/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰuənX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	kǔn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fan2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰuːnʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	壼
Reading #	1/1
No.	7542
Phonetic component	壼
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	閫
Old Chinese	/*kʰuːnʔ/

Definitions

壼 (literary)

1. palace corridor or passageway
2. (figuratively) inner palace; women's inner chamber
3. (figuratively) woman; wife

Compounds

• 中壼／中壸
• 內壼／内壸
• 壼奧／壸奥
• 壼政／壸政
• 壼範／壸范
• 壼闈／壸闱

 

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B00599
• “壼”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

壼

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: こん (kon)
• Kan-on: こん (kon)
• Kun: へやのつろ (heyanotsuro); おく (oku)

Korean

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ko̞n]
• Phonetic hangul: [곤]

Hanja

Wikisource

壼 • (gon) (hangeul 곤, revised gon, McCune–Reischauer gon)

1. Court corridor (in a context for implying a woman's domain such as in 閨壼, an inner chamber)
   
2. Symbolism for a place to stay (=居)

Vietnamese

Han character

壼: Hán Nôm readings: hồ

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