肝

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic ⺼ (“body”) + phonetic 干 – a kind of body part.

Han character

肝 (radical 130 肉+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 月一十 (BMJ), four-corner 7124₀, composition ⿰月干)

1. liver

References

• KangXi: page 974, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29273
• Dae Jaweon: page 1425, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2044, character 3
• Unihan data for U+809D

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Cantonese

Hanzi

肝 (jyutping gon1, Yale gon1)

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Hakka

Hanzi

肝 (POJ kon, Guangdong kon¹, Hagfa Pinyim gon1)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

肝 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: かん (kan)
• Kun: きも (kimo)

Compounds

• 肝炎 (かんえん, kan'en)

Noun

肝 (hiragana きも, romaji kimo)

1. the liver
   • 794: Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki

     心腎肝脯 心人情也 腎音神 訓牟良斗 肝音干 訓岐毛

2. innards

References

• 1962 June 18, Rizō Takeuchi, Nara Ibun: Volume 3 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō Shuppan, ISBN 4-4903-0010-7:

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

肝 (pinyin gān (gan1), shì (shi4), Wade-Giles kan¹, shih⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

肝 (can, gan)