幵

See also: 开, 井, and 幷

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogram (指事): 干 + 干 – comparing two 干 side by side, even.

Note that in some early forms of 開, the unrelated 开 (two hands) is drawn as 幵.

Han character

幵 (radical 51 干+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 一十一十 (MJMJ), four-corner 1044₀, composition ⿰干干)

1. even level
2. to raise in both hands

Derived characters

• 形

References

• KangXi: page 340, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9169
• Dae Jaweon: page 649, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 408, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5E75

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Cantonese

Hanzi

幵 (Jyutping gin1, hin1, Yale gin1, hin1)

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Japanese

Kanji

幵

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: けん (ken)
• Kun: たいらか (tairaka)

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Korean

Hanja

幵 (gyeon) (hangeul 견, revised gyeon, McCune-Reischauer kyŏn, Yale kyen)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

幵 (Pinyin jiān (jian1), qiān (qian1), Wade-Giles chien¹, ch'ien¹)

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