勸

勸 U+52F8, 勸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-52F8 ← 勷 [U+52F7] CJK Unified Ideographs 勹 → [U+52F9]

See also: 勧 and 劝

Translingual

Traditional	勸
Shinjitai	勧
Simplified	劝

Han character

勸 (radical 19 力+17, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿土大尸 (TGKS), four-corner 4422₇, composition ⿰雚力)

1. recommend, advise, urge

References

• KangXi: page 150, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2486
• Dae Jaweon: page 338, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 382, character 18
• Unihan data for U+52F8

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Chinese

trad.		勸
simp.		劝

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (雚) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
觀	*koːn, *koːns
灌	*koːns
鸛	*koːns
瓘	*koːns
矔	*koːns, *kroːns
懽	*koːns, *qʰoːn
爟	*koːns
雚	*koːns
罐	*koːns
鑵	*koːns
歡	*qʰoːn
驩	*qʰoːn
貛	*qʰoːn
酄	*qʰoːn
獾	*qʰoːn
讙	*qʰoːn, *qʰon
嚾	*qʰoːns
權	*ɡron
顴	*ɡron
孉	*ɡron
蠸	*ɡron
虇	*kʰonʔ, *kʰons
勸	*kʰons

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʰons): phonetic 雚 (OC *koːns) + semantic 力 (“strength”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): quàn (quan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hyun³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): khien / khian
• Min Nan (POJ): khoàn / khǹg / khùiⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: quàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩㄢˋ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'üan⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiuann
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰy̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hyun³
    • Yale: hyun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hyn³
    • Guangdong Romanization: hün³
    • IPA ^(key): /hyːn³³/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khien
    • Hakka Romanization System: kien
    • Hagfa Pinyim: kian⁴
    • IPA: /kʰi̯en⁵⁵/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khian
    • Hakka Romanization System: kian
    • Hagfa Pinyim: kian⁴
    • IPA: /kʰi̯an⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khoàn
    • Tâi-lô: khuàn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qoaxn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰuan²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰuan⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰuan²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰuan¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰuan²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khǹg
    • Tâi-lô: khǹg
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qngx
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰŋ̍⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰŋ̍¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰŋ̍²¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰŋ̍²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khùiⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: khuìnn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qvuix
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰuĩ²¹/

Note:

• khoàn - literary;
• khǹg/khùiⁿ - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: /kʰʉɐn^H/▼

Rime
Character	勸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	元 (66)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	去願切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰʉɐnH/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰʷiɐnH/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰiuɐnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰuanH/
Li Rong	/kʰiuɐnH/
Wang Li	/kʰĭwɐnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰi̯wɐnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	quàn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*C.qʷʰar-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰons/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	勸
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	quàn
Middle Chinese	‹ khjwonH ›
Old Chinese	/*C.qʷʰar-s/
English	encourage
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	勸
Reading #	1/1
No.	4501
Phonetic component	雚
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	劵
Old Chinese	/*kʰons/

Definitions

勸

1. recommend, advise, urge

Compounds

• 劝导
• 劝告
• 劝和
• 劝化
• 劝驾
• 劝架
• 劝谏
• 劝教
• 劝解
• 劝戒
• 劝酒
• 劝捐
• 劝开
• 劝勉
• 劝募
• 劝善
• 劝说
• 劝退
• 劝慰
• 劝降
• 劝学
• 劝业场
• 劝诱
• 劝止
• 劝阻

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Japanese

Kanji

勸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 勧)

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Readings

• Goon: こん (kon)
• Kan’on: けん (ken)
• Kan’yōon: かん (kan)
• Kun: すすめる (susumeru)

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Korean

Hanja

勸 • (gwon) (hangeul 권, revised gwon, McCune-Reischauer kwŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

勸 (khuyến, khuyên)

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