案

Translingual

Character 案

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 木 + phonetic 安.

Han character

案 (radical 75 木+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十女木 (JVD), four-corner 3090₄)

1. table, bench
2. legal case

References

• KangXi: page 525, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14762
• Dae Jaweon: page 914, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1207, character 8
• Unihan data for U+6848

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Cantonese

Hanzi

案 (Jyutping ngon3, on3, Yale ngon3, on3)

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Japanese

Kanji

案

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Kanji in this term

案

あん Grade: 4

on'yomi

• On: あん (an)
• Kun: つくえ (tsukue), かんがえる (kangaeru)

Noun

案 (hiragana あん, romaji an)

1. plan

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Korean

Hanja

案 (an) (hangeul 안, revised an, McCune-Reischauer an, Yale an)

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Mandarin

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simp. and trad.		案

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [an˥˩]

Hanzi

案 (Pinyin àn (an4), Wade-Giles an⁴)

Noun

案 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin àn)

1. (Advanced Mandarin) table; desk
2. (Advanced Mandarin) law case; case
3. (Advanced Mandarin) record; file
4. (Advanced Mandarin) a plan submitted for consideration; a proposal

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Vietnamese

Han character

案 (Án)

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