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See also: 金

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – belongings under a roof (入/人): all one’s belongings, complete.

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Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

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1. maintain, keep whole or intact
2. all, everything
3. a surname (Quán)

Derived characters

• 栓

See also

• 金

References

• KangXi: page 126, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1424
• Dae Jaweon: page 271, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 115, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5168

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Chinese

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Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): quán (quan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cyun⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): chn̂g,choân

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: quán
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩㄢˊ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'üan²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyuan
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰy̯ɛn³⁵/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cyun⁴
    • Yale: chyùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsyn⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰyːn²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chn̂g,choân
    • Tâi-lô: tsn̂g,tsoân
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sŋ,cʔuan²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sŋ,cʔuan¹³/
  • Note: chn̂g - vernacular, choân - literary.

Middle Chinese pronunciation (全, reconstructed)
Character (全), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 從 (15) Final: 仙 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 疾緣切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/d͡ziuᴇn/	/d͡zʱi̯wɛn/	/d͡ziuɛn/	/d͡zʷiɛn/	/d͡zwian/	/d͡zĭwɛn/	/d͡zjuæn/

Old Chinese pronunciation (全, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
全								quán								‹ dzjwen ›								/*[dz]o[n]/								complete (adj.)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
全					10718					全					元					3					全					/*zlon/

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

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(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ぜん (zen), せん (sen)
• Kun: まったく (mattaku), まったい (mattai), まっとうする (mattousuru)

Compounds

• 全て
• 全部
• 全然

Noun

全 (hiragana ぜん, romaji zen)

1. entire, complete, overall

Prefix

全 (hiragana ぜん, romaji zen-)

1. all, pan-, omni-

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Korean

Hanja

全 (jeon) (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune-Reischauer chŏn)

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Han character

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