件

See also: 仵, 仟, 任, and 伴

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 亻 (“man”) + 牛 (“cow”) – man and cow form a unit.

Han character

件 (radical 9 人+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人竹手 (OHQ), four-corner 2520₀, composition ⿰亻牛)

1. numerary adjunct for article
2. item
3. matter

References

• KangXi: page 94, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 410
• Dae Jaweon: page 200, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 122, character 3
• Unihan data for U+4EF6

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Cantonese

Hanzi

件 (Jyutping gin6, Yale gin6)

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Japanese

Kanji

件

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: けん (ken)
• Kun: くだり (kudari), くだん (kudan)

Compounds

• 件件
• 件数
• 件名
• 事件
• 条件

Noun

件 (hiragana けん, romaji ken)

1. case
2. matter
3. subject

件 (hiragana くだん, romaji kudan)

件 (くだり, kudari)

1. example
2. precedent
   • 件の[人]
   •  :くだんの[ひと]
   •  :kudan no [hito]
   •  :the [person] in question; the said [person]

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Korean

Hanja

件 (geon) (hangeul 건, revised geon, McCune-Reischauer kŏn)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

• audio

  (file)

Hanzi

件 (Pinyin jiàn (jian4), Wade-Giles chien⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

件 (kiện, kịn, kẹn)

References

• Nom Foundation