灌

See also 潅

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 雚

Han character

灌 (radical 85 水+18, 21 strokes, cangjie input 水廿口土 (ETRG), four-corner 3411₄)

1. pour
2. water
3. irrigate, flood

References

• KangXi: page 662, character 35
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18759
• Dae Jaweon: page 1071, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1786, character 13
• Unihan data for U+704C

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Cantonese

Hanzi

灌 (Yale gun3)

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Japanese

Kanji

灌

Readings

• On: かん (kan)
• Kun: そそぐ (sosogu)

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Korean

Hanja

灌 (hangeul 관, revised gwan, McCune-Reischauer kwan, Yale kwan)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

灌 (pinyin guàn (guan4), Wade-Giles kuan⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

灌 (quán)