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Translingual [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Variant form of , roughly Ideogrammic compound (會意):  +  – many rooms under a roof, an official building.

Note that line between the two boxes is on the left side, rather than in the center (as in 宮, 呂). The same shape is found in and , though from a different origin (as phonetic).

Han character [edit]

(radical 40 +5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 十口中口 (JRLR), four-corner 30777)

  1. official, public servant

Derived characters [edit]

Related characters [edit]

References [edit]

  • KangXi: page 283, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7107
  • Dae Jaweon: page 558, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 921, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+5B98

Cantonese [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(Yale gun1)


Japanese [edit]

Kanji [edit]

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings [edit]


Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]

(hangeul , revised gwan, McCune-Reischauer kwan)


Mandarin [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

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

Compounds [edit]


Vietnamese [edit]

Han character [edit]

(quan)