槓

See also: 杠

槓 U+69D3, 槓 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-69D3 ← 槒 [U+69D2] CJK Unified Ideographs 槔 → [U+69D4]

Translingual

Han character

槓 (radical 75, 木+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 木一月金 (DMBC), four-corner 4198₆, composition ⿰木貢)

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 546, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15343
• Dae Jaweon: page 934, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1260, character 4
• Unihan data for U+69D3

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Chinese

trad.		槓/杠*
simp.		杠*

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 貢 (OC *koːŋs).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gàng (gang⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄤˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gong³, gung³, lung⁵
• Min Nan (POJ): kàng / kòng / kǹg

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: gàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄤˋ
    • Wade–Giles: kang4
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ganq
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gàng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɑŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gong³, gung³, lung⁵
    • Yale: gong, gung, lúhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gong³, gung³, lung⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: gong³, gung³, lung⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɔːŋ³³/, /kʊŋ³³/, /lʊŋ¹³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kàng
    • Tâi-lô: kàng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kaxng
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kaŋ²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kaŋ¹¹/
  • (Hokkien: Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kòng
    • Tâi-lô: kòng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: koxng
    • IPA (Singapore): /kɔŋ²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kǹg
    • Tâi-lô: kǹg
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kngx
    • IPA (Taipei): /kŋ̍¹¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung): /kŋ̍²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kŋ̍⁴¹/

Definitions

槓

1. lever, pole, crowbar
2. sharpen
3. (Cantonese) wardrobe, trunk
4. (mahjong) kong
5. (neologism) Short for 抬槓／抬杠 (táigàng).

Usage notes

• When playing mahjong, this word is said as a call when declaring a kong.

Descendants

• English: kong
• Japanese: 槓(カン) (kan)

Compounds

• 保險槓／保险杠 (bǎoxiǎngàng)
• 倔槓頭／倔杠头
• 單槓／单杠 (dāngàng)
• 大抬其槓／大抬其杠
• 大槓／大杠
• 抬槓／抬杠 (táigàng)
• 插槓子／插杠子
• 搶槓／抢杠 (qiǎnggàng)
• 撬槓／撬杠 (qiàogàng)
• 攀槓子／攀杠子
• 敲竹槓／敲竹杠 (qiāozhúgàng)
• 明槓／明杠 (mínggàng)

• 暗槓／暗杠 (àngàng)
• 槓上了／杠上了 (gàngshàngle)
• 槓上開花／杠上开花 (gàngshàng kāihuā)
• 槓刀／杠刀
• 槓刀布／杠刀布
• 槓夫／杠夫 (gàngfū)
• 槓子／杠子 (gàngzi)
• 槓子火燒／杠子火烧
• 槓子頭／杠子头
• 槓房／杠房
• 槓桿／杠杆 (gànggǎn)
• 槓桿定律／杠杆定律

• 槓槓的／杠杠的 (gánggángde)
• 槓牌／杠牌
• 槓鈴／杠铃 (gànglíng)
• 槓頭／杠头 (gàngtóu)
• 槓龜／杠龟 (gàngguī)
• 盤槓子／盘杠子
• 穿心槓子／穿心杠子
• 竹槓／竹杠 (zhúgàng)
• 起槓／起杠
• 開槓／开杠 (kāigàng)
• 雙槓／双杠 (shuānggàng)
• 高低槓／高低杠 (gāodīgàng)

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Japanese

Kanji

槓

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. lever

Readings

• Go-on: こう (kō)
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kun: てこ (teko, 槓)

Compounds

• 槓(こう)桿(かん) (kōkan, “lever”)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
槓
カン Hyōgaiji
Irregular

From Mandarin 槓 (gàng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kã̠ɴ]

Noun

槓(カン) • (kan) 

1. (mahjong) Short for 槓子 (kantsu): a set of four identical tiles
2. (mahjong) a call for such a set (compare English kong):
   1. for a 明槓 (minkan, “open kan”), the player calling should have a 暗刻 (ankō, “closed triplet”) in hand and the current discarded tile is the fourth tile
   2. for a 加槓 (kakan, “added kan”), the player should have an 明刻 (minkō, “open triplet”) beforehand and the fourth tile must be self-drawn
   3. for an 暗槓 (ankan, “closed kan”), the player calling must simply have all four tiles in hand

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 槓(カン)子(ツ) (kantsu)
• 槓(カン)ドラ (kandora)
• 暗(アン)槓(カン) (ankan)
• 加(カ)槓(カン) (kakan)
• 搶(チャン)槓(カン) (chankan)
• 明(ミン)槓(カン) (minkan)

Coordinate terms

• 吃(チー) (chī, “call for a sequence”, compare English chow)
• 碰(ポン) (pon, “call for an open triplet”, compare English pung)

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Korean

Hanja

槓 • (gong) (hangeul 공, revised gong, McCune–Reischauer kong, Yale kong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

槓: Hán Nôm readings: cổng

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