冠

See also 冦

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 冖 + 元 + 寸 – a hand (寸) putting a hat (冖) on the head (元).

Han character

冠 (radical 14 冖+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月一山戈 (BMUI), four-corner 3721₄, composition ⿱冖⿺元寸)

1. cap, crown, headgear
2. champion

References

• KangXi: page 130, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1580
• Dae Jaweon: page 292, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 303, character 18
• Unihan data for U+51A0

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Cantonese

Hanzi

冠 (Yale gun1, gun3)

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Japanese

Kanji

冠 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: かん (kan)
• Kun: かんむり (kanmuri)

Compounds

• 冠詞
  • 定冠詞
    • 不定冠詞
• 王冠
• 月桂冠
• 草冠

Derived terms

• 瓜田に履を納れず、李下に冠を正さず

Noun

冠 (hiragana かんむり, romaji kanmuri)

1. crown, coronet
2. a type of traditional cap
3. top radical of a kanji

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Korean

Hanja

冠
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 관 (revised: gwan, McCune-Reischauer: kwan)

• Name (hangeul): 갓 관()

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Mandarin

Hanzi

冠 (pinyin guān (guan1), Wade-Giles kuan¹)

1. hat
2. corona
3. crown
4. crest; comb

Compounds

• 冠词
• 冠带流传
• 冠带之国
• 冠军
• 冠军赛
• 冠亚军
• 冠状动脉
• 冠状动脉梗塞
• 冠状动脉栓塞
• 冠状动脉硬化
• 冠状动脉阻塞
• 冠心丹参片
• 冠心苏合丸

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Vietnamese

Han character

冠 (quan, quán)