權

See also: 权 and 権

Translingual

shinjitai	権
simplified	权
traditional	權

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 木 + phonetic 雚

Han character

權 (radical 75 木+18, 22 strokes, cangjie input 木廿口土 (DTRG), four-corner 4491₄, composition ⿰木雚)

1. power, right, authority

Descendants

• 権 权

References

• KangXi: page 563, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15926
• Dae Jaweon: page 951, character 32
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1319, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6B0A

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Chinese

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trad.		權
simp.		权

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): quán (quan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kyun⁴
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): khièn
• Min Nan (POJ): kôan

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: quán
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩㄢˊ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'üan²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyuan
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰy̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: kyun⁴
    • Yale: kyùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kyn⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰyːn²¹/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khièn
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /kʰi̯en¹¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kôan
    • Tâi-lô: kuân
    • IPA (Taipei): /kuan²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kuan¹³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (權, reconstructed)
Character (權), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 群 (30) Final: 仙 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 巨員切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɡiuᴇn/	/gi̯wɛn/	/ɡiuɛn/	/ɡʷiɛn/	/gwian/	/ɡĭwɛn/	/ɡjuæn/

Old Chinese pronunciation (權, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
權								quán								‹ gjwen ›								/*[ɡ]ʷrar/								weight of a steelyard
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
權					4496					雚					元					3					權					/*ɡron/

Definitions

權

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Japanese

Kanji

權

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: けん (ken), ごん (gon)
• Kun: おもり (omori), はかる (hakaru), かり (kari)

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Korean

Hanja

權 (gwon)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 권 (revised: gwon, McCune-Reischauer: kwŏn, Yale: kwen)

• Name (hangeul): 권세()

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Vietnamese

Han character

權 (quyền, quàn, dào)

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