姦

See also: 奸 and 姧

Translingual

Etymology

女 × 3, lewd behaviour, vice

Han character

姦 (radical 38 女+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 女女女 (VVV), four-corner 4044₄, composition ⿱女奻)

1. adultery
2. debauchery
3. debauch
4. wrong, wicked, immoral
5. rape

References

• KangXi: page 260, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6217
• Dae Jaweon: page 526, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1048, character 10
• Unihan data for U+59E6

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Chinese

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trad.		姦
simp.		奸

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiān (jian¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gaan¹
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ):

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jiān
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄢ
    • Wade-Giles: chien¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jian
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gaan¹
    • Yale: gāan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gaan¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kɑːn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ:
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (姦, reconstructed)
Character (姦), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 刪 Division: II			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 古顔切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kɣan/	/kan/	/kan/	/kɯan/	/kaɨn/	/kan/	/kɐn/

Old Chinese pronunciation (姦, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
姦								jiān								‹ kæn ›								/*[k]ˤran/								wicked(ness)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
姦					6027					姦					元					1					姦					/*kraːn/

Definitions

姦

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Japanese

Kanji

姦

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: けん (ken)
• Kan’on: かん (kan)
• Kun: みだら (midara), かしましい (kashimashii)

Compounds

• 姦淫
• 姦凶, 姦兇
• 姦計
• 姦言
• 姦才
• 姦細
• 姦心
• 姦臣
• 姦通
• 姦慝
• 姦佞
• 姦雄
• 強姦

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Korean

Hanja

姦 (gan) (hangeul 간, revised gan, McCune-Reischauer kan, Yale kan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

姦 (gian)

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