官

See also: 宮

Translingual

Etymology

Variant form of 宮, roughly Ideogrammic compound (會意): 宀 + 呂 – many rooms under a roof, an official building.

Note that line between the two boxes is on the left side, rather than in the center (as in 宮, 呂). The same shape is found in 追 and 歸, though from a different origin (as phonetic).

Han character

官 (radical 40 宀+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 十口中口 (JRLR), four-corner 3077₇, composition ⿱宀㠯)

Derived characters

• 倌 館 (馆 舘) 菅 管

Related characters

• 宮, 宫
• 追

References

• KangXi: page 283, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7107
• Dae Jaweon: page 558, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 921, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5B98

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		官

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guān (guan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gun¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kôn
• Min Dong (BUC): guăng
• Min Nan (POJ): koaⁿ / koan
• Wu (Wiktionary): kuoe (T1)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: guān
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄢ
    • Wade-Giles: kuan¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guan
    • IPA ^(key): /ku̯a̠n⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gun¹
    • Yale: gūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gun¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kuːn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kôn
    • Hakka Romanization System: gon´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: gon¹
    • IPA: /kon²⁴/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: guăng
    • IPA ^(key): /kuaŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koaⁿ / koan
    • Tâi-lô: kuann / kuan
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kvoaf, koafn
    • IPA (Taipei): /kuã⁴⁴/, /kuan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kuã⁴⁴/, /kuan⁴⁴/
    • Note: koaⁿ - vernacular, koan - literary.
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: kuoe (T1)
    • IPA ^(key): /kv̩ʷø⁵³/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 官
Mandarin	Beijing	/kuan⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/kuan⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/kuan²¹/
	Jinan	/kuã²¹³/
	Qingdao	/kuã²¹³/
	Zhengzhou	/kuan²⁴/
	Xi'an	/kã²¹/
	Xining	/kuã⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/kuan⁴⁴/
	Lanzhou	/kuɛ̃n³¹/
	Ürümqi	/kuan⁴⁴/
	Wuhan	/kuan⁵⁵/
	Chengdu	/kuan⁵⁵/
	Guiyang	/kuan⁵⁵/
	Kunming	/kuã̠⁴⁴/
	Nanjing	/kuaŋ³¹/
	Hefei	/kʊ̃²¹/
Jin	Taiyuan	/kuæ̃¹¹/
	Pingyao	/kuɑŋ¹³/
	Hohhot	/kuæ̃³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/kuø⁵³/
	Suzhou	/kuø⁵⁵/
	Hangzhou	/kuõ³³/
	Wenzhou	/ky³³/
Hui	Shexian	/kuɛ³¹/
	Tunxi	/kuːə¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/kõ³³/
	Xiangtan	/kɔn³³/
Gan	Nanchang	/kuɵn⁴²/
Hakka	Meixian	/kuon⁴⁴/
	Taoyuan	/kon²⁴/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/kun⁵³/
	Nanning	/kun⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/kun⁵⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/kuan⁵⁵/ /kuã⁵⁵/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/kuaŋ⁴⁴/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/kuiŋ⁵⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/kuã³³/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/kuaŋ²³/ /kua²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /kuɑn/▼

Rime
Character	官
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	古丸切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuɑn/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷɑn/
Shao Rongfen	/kuɑn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwan/
Li Rong	/kuɑn/
Wang Li	/kuɑn/
Bernard Karlgren	/kuɑn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guān

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*kʷˤa[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*koːn/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	官
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	guān
Middle Chinese	‹ kwan ›
Old Chinese	/*kʷˤa[n]/
English	official (n.)
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	官
Reading #	1/1
No.	4435
Phonetic component	官
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	官
Old Chinese	/*koːn/

Definitions

官

1. official, public servant

Compounds

Terms derived from 官

• 官倒
• 官僚 (guānliáo)
• 官僚主義／官僚主义 (guānliáozhǔyì)
• 官僚資本／官僚资本
• 官僚資產階級／官僚资产阶级
• 官價／官价
• 官兵 (guānbīng)
• 官制
• 官印
• 官司 (guānsi)
• 官吏 (guānlì)

• 官員／官员 (guānyuán)
• 官商
• 官報／官报
• 官報私仇／官报私仇
• 官官相護／官官相护
• 官家
• 官府 (guānfǔ)
• 官方 (guānfāng)
• 官服
• 官樣文章／官样文章 (guānyàng-wénzhāng)
• 官氣／官气

• 官燕
• 官職／官职 (guānzhí)
• 官能
• 官能團／官能团 (guānnéngtuán)
• 官腔
• 官艙／官舱
• 官辦／官办
• 官逼民反
• 官邸 (guāndǐ)
• 官銜／官衔 (guānxián)

References

• (Min Nan) “Entry #3824”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

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Japanese

Kanji

官

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: かん (kan)
• Kan’on: かん (kan)
• On (unclassified): がん (gan)
• Kun: つかさ (tsukasa), おおやけ (ooyake)

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Korean

Hanja

官 • ‎(gwan) (hangeul 관, McCune-Reischauer kwan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

官 (quan)

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