柬

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 束 (“tie”) + 八 (“individually”)

Han character

柬 (radical 75 木+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 木田火 (DWF), four-corner 5090₆)

1. letter, invitation
2. choose

Descendants

• 諫, 楝, 煉, 湅, 揀, 闌, 練, 鍊, 𣍃

References

• KangXi: page 520, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14655
• Dae Jaweon: page 908, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1179, character 4
• Unihan data for U+67EC

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Cantonese

Hanzi

柬 (Yale gaan2)

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Japanese

Kanji

柬

Readings

• On: かん (kan), けん (ken)
• Kun: えらぶ (erabu), てがみ (tegami)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

柬 (pinyin jiǎn (jian3), Wade-Giles chien³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

柬 (giản)