菅

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 艹 + phonetic 官 – a type of grass.

Han character

菅 (radical 140 艸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿十口口 (TJRR), four-corner 4477₇)

1. coarse grass, Themeda forskalii

References

• KangXi: page 1036, character 51
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31142
• Dae Jaweon: page 1495, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3240, character 10
• Unihan data for U+83C5

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Cantonese

Hanzi

菅 (Yale gaan1)

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Japanese

Kanji

菅

Readings

• On: かん (kan), けん (ken)
• Kun: すげ (suge), すが (suga)

Proper noun

菅 (hiragana かん, romaji Kan)

1. A surname.

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

菅 (pinyin jiān (jian1), Wade-Giles chien¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

菅 (gian)