公案

Chinese

		just; honorable; public just; honorable; public; common; fair; duke; mister	(legal) case; incident; record (legal) case; incident; record; file; table
simp. and trad. (公案)		公	案

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gōng'àn

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄥ ㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gung¹ on³
• Min Nan (POJ): kong-àn
• Wu (Wiktionary): kon oe (T1)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: gōng'àn
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄥ ㄢˋ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gongann
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gong'àn
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʊŋ⁵⁵ ˀän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gung¹ on³
    • Yale: gūng on
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gung¹ on³
    • Guangdong Romanization: gung¹ on³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʊŋ⁵⁵ ɔːn³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kong-àn
    • Tâi-lô: kong-àn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kong'axn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² an²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kɔŋ³³ an⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² an²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ an¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ an²¹/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: kon oe (T1)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʊŋ⁵⁵ ø²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /kuŋ  ʔɑn^H/▼

Rime
Character	公	案
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	東 (1)	寒 (61)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	古紅切	烏旰切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuŋ/	/ʔɑnH/
Pan Wuyun	/kuŋ/	/ʔɑnH/
Shao Rongfen	/kuŋ/	/ʔɑnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kəwŋ/	/ʔanH/
Li Rong	/kuŋ/	/ʔɑnH/
Wang Li	/kuŋ/	/ɑnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/kuŋ/	/ʔɑnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gōng	àn

Noun

公案

1. koan
2. (literary) court table (used by a judge)
3. (figuratively) complicated legal case
4. (figuratively) much discussed issue; sensational affair

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
公	案
こう Grade: 2	あん Grade: 4
on’yomi

Noun

公案 (hiragana こうあん, rōmaji kōan)

1. koan

Etymology

公 (public) 案 (record). A public record serves as a metaphor for principles of reality beyond the private opinion of one person, and a teacher may test the student's ability to recognize and understand that principle.

Descendants

• English: koan
• French: koan
• Hungarian: koan
• Russian: коа́н (koán)

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Korean

Hanja in this term
公	案

Noun

公案 • (gong-an) (hangeul 공안)

1. Hanja form^? of 공안 (“koan”).

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Vietnamese

Hán tự in this term
公	案

Noun

公案

1. Hán tự form of công án (“koan”).