涓

Translingual

Han character

涓 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 水口月 (ERB), four-corner 3612₇, composition ⿰氵肙)

Derived characters

• 𪡵, 𪬙, 𠅻, 𫯗

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 627, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17541
• Dae Jaweon: page 1029, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1624, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6D93

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Chinese

trad.		涓
simp. #		涓

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
絹	*kʷens
狷	*kʷens, *kʷeːns
蜎	*ɡʷenʔ, *qʷen, *qʷeːn
弲	*qʰʷen, *qʷeːn
娟	*qʷen
悁	*qʷen
捐	*ɢʷen
涓	*kʷeːn
鵑	*kʷeːn
睊	*kʷeːn, *kʷeːns
焆	*kʷeːn, *qred, *qʷeːd
鞙	*kʷeːn, *ɡʷeːnʔ
埍	*kʷeːnʔ, *ɡʷeːnʔ
罥	*kʷeːnʔ, *kʷeːns
羂	*kʷleːnʔ
瓹	*kʷeːns
梋	*qʰʷeːn
鋗	*qʰʷeːn
駽	*qʰʷeːn, *qʰʷeːns
琄	*ɡʷeːnʔ
剈	*qʷeːn
肙	*qʷeːns

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): juān (juan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gyun¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): koan

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: juān
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jyuan
    • Wade–Giles: chüan¹
    • Yale: jywān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiuan
    • Palladius: цзюань (czjuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gyun¹
    • Yale: gyūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gyn¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: gün¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kyːn⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koan
    • Tâi-lô: kuan
    • Phofsit Daibuun: koafn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kuan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kuan³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kuan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kuan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kuan⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: kwen

Rime
Character	涓
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	先 (86)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	古玄切
Baxter	kwen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kwen/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷen/
Shao Rongfen	/kuɛn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwɛn/
Li Rong	/kuen/
Wang Li	/kiwen/
Bernard Karlgren	/kiwen/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	juān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gyun1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʷeːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	涓
Reading #	1/1
No.	16069
Phonetic component	肙
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	涓
Old Chinese	/*kʷeːn/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 涓

1. (literary) brook; stream
2. (literary) tiny; negligible
3. (literary) to choose; to select
4. (literary) to clean; to clear

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Japanese

Kanji

涓

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): けん (ken), えん (en), げん (gen)
• Kun: しずく (shizuku), わずか (wazuka), あな (ana)

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Korean

Hanja

涓 • (yeon) (hangeul 연, revised yeon, McCune–Reischauer yŏn, Yale yen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 涓 (quen, quên, quyên)

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References

• Nom Foundation