墾

墾 U+58BE, 墾 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-58BE ← 墽 [U+58BD] CJK Unified Ideographs 墿 → [U+58BF]

See also: 垦

Translingual

Han character

墾 (radical 32 土+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 月女土 (BVG), four-corner 2710₄, composition ⿱貇土)

1. cultivate, reclaim, to farm land

References

• KangXi: page 240, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5509
• Dae Jaweon: page 479, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 492, character 4
• Unihan data for U+58BE

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Chinese

trad.		墾
simp.		垦

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (艮) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
艱	*krɯːn
齦	*kʰrɯːnʔ, *kʰɯːnʔ, *ŋɯn
眼	*ŋrɯːnʔ
蛝	*ɡrɯːn
限	*ɡrɯːnʔ
硍	*ɡrɯːnʔ
豤	*kʰɯːnʔ, *kʰɯːnʔ, *kʰuːn
詪	*ɡlɯːnʔ, *kɯːnʔ, *kɯːns
根	*kɯːn
跟	*kɯːn
珢	*kɯːn, *kɯːns, *ŋrɯn
艮	*kɯːns
茛	*kɯːns
墾	*kʰɯːnʔ
懇	*kʰɯːnʔ
垠	*ŋɯːn, *ŋrɯn, *ŋɯn
泿	*ŋɯːn, *ŋrɯn
痕	*ɡɯːn
拫	*ɡɯːn
鞎	*ɡɯːn
很	*ɡɯːnʔ
恨	*ɡɯːns
銀	*ŋrɯn
檭	*ŋrɯn

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kěn (ken³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): han²
• Min Nan (POJ): khún

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: kěn
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄣˇ
    • Wade-Giles: k'ên³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: keen
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰən²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: han²
    • Yale: hán
    • Cantonese Pinyin: han²
    • Guangdong Romanization: hen²
    • IPA ^(key): /hɐn³⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khún
    • Tâi-lô: khún
    • Phofsit Daibuun: quon
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰun⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰun⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰun⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰun⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰun⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /kʰən^X/▼

Rime
Character	墾
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	痕 (53)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	康很切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰənX/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰənX/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰənX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰənX/
Li Rong	/kʰənX/
Wang Li	/kʰənX/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰənX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	kěn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰɯːnʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	墾
Reading #	1/1
No.	3930
Phonetic component	艮
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	墾
Old Chinese	/*kʰɯːnʔ/

Definitions

墾

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Compounds

• 墾地／垦地
• 墾殖／垦殖 (kěnzhí)
• 墾田／垦田
• 墾荒／垦荒 (kěnhuāng)
• 墾闢／垦辟

• 屯墾／屯垦 (túnkěn)
• 山田燒墾／山田烧垦
• 排水開墾／排水开垦
• 濫墾／滥垦

• 耕墾／耕垦
• 農墾／农垦
• 開墾／开垦 (kāikěn)
• 鹽墾／盐垦

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Japanese

Kanji

墾

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): こん (kon, Jōyō)
• Kun: ひらく (hiraku, 墾く)

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Korean

Hanja

墾 • (gan) (hangeul 간, revised gan, McCune-Reischauer kan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

墾 (khẩn)

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