貫

See also 贯, and 头

Translingual

simpl.		贯
trad.		貫

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 毌 + semantic 貝 – 毌 may also represent string of coins.

Han character

貫 (radical 154 貝+4, 11 strokes, cangjie input 田十月山金 (WJBUC), four-corner 7780₆)

1. a string of 1000 coins
2. to go through

Derived characters

• 慣

Descendants

• 贯
• 头 (simplification in some characters, such as 实)

References

• KangXi: page 1205, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36681
• Dae Jaweon: page 1668, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3628, character 15
• Unihan data for U+8CAB

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Cantonese

Hanzi

貫 (simplified 贯, Yale gun3)

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Japanese

Kanji

貫 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: かん (kan), わん (wan)
• Kun: つらぬく (tsuranuku), ひく (hiku)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

貫 (simplified 贯, pinyin guàn (guan4), Wade-Giles kuan⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

貫 (quán, quan, quen)