關

See also 関, and 关

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 門 (“door”) + phonetic 𢇅

To stop the door from opening with a wooden stick.

Han character

關 (radical 169 門+11, 19 strokes, cangjie input 日弓女戈廿 (ANVIT), four-corner 7777₂, composition ⿵門⿱⿰幺幺丱)

1. frontier pass
2. close
3. relation

References

• KangXi: page 1341, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41470
• Dae Jaweon: page 1845, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4316, character 10
• Unihan data for U+95DC

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Cantonese

Hanzi

關 (simplified 关, jyutping gwaan1, Yale gwaan1)

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Japanese

Kanji

關

Readings

• On: かん (kan), けん (ken), わん (wan)
• Kun: せき (seki)

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Korean

Hanja

關 (hangeul 관, 완, revised gwan, wan, McCune-Reischauer kwan, wan, Yale kwan, wan)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

關 (simplified 关, pinyin guān (guan1), hǎn (han3), xiàn (xian4), Wade-Giles kuan¹, han³, hsien⁴)

Compounds

• 關係

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Middle Chinese

Han character

關 (*guan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

關 (quan)