案

Translingual

Character 案

Han character

案 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十女木 (JVD), four-corner 3090₄, composition ⿱安木)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 525, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14762
• Dae Jaweon: page 914, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1207, character 8
• Unihan data for U+6848

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Chinese

trad.		案
simp. #		案

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (安) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
安	*qaːn
鞍	*qaːn
鞌	*qaːn
侒	*qaːn
按	*qaːns
案	*qaːns
洝	*qaːns
荌	*qaːns
晏	*qaːns, *qraːns
鴳	*qraːns
騴	*qraːns
鷃	*qraːns
頞	*qaːd
胺	*qaːd
咹	*qaːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qaːns) : semantic 木 + phonetic 安 (OC *qaːn).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 案

1. table; desk
2. law case; case
3. record; file
4. a plan submitted for consideration; a proposal
5. a wooden plate used to serve food in ancient times

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

案

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: あん (an, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: あん (an, Jōyō)
• Kun: つくえ (tsukue, 案); かんがえる (kangaeru, 案える)

Etymology 1

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

From Middle Chinese 案 (MC 'anH).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) あ​ん [áꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ã̠ɴ]

Noun

案(あん) • (an) 

1. (literary) desk; table
2. idea; suggestion; opinion; thought
3. plan; proposal; bill
4. legal case
5. expectation; anticipation
6. rough draft

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
案
つくえ Grade: 4
kun’yomi

Noun

案(つくえ) • (tsukue) 

1. Alternative form of 机

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Korean

Hanja

案 • (an) (hangeul 안, revised an, McCune–Reischauer an, Yale an)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 案 (án)

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