瓩

瓩 U+74E9, 瓩 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-74E9 ← 瓨 [U+74E8] CJK Unified Ideographs 瓪 → [U+74EA]

Translingual

Han character

瓩 (Kangxi radical 98, 瓦+3, 8 strokes, cangjie input 一弓竹十 (MNHJ), composition ⿺瓦千)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 748, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21450
• Dae Jaweon: page 1156, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1422, character 5
• Unihan data for U+74E9

Chinese

trad.		瓩
simp. #		瓩

Glyph origin

Borrowed from Japanese. Ultimately an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意): 瓦 (“watt”) + 千 (“one thousand”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qiānwǎ

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄢ ㄨㄚˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cin¹ ngaa⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qiānwǎ
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢ ㄨㄚˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cianwǎ
    • Wade–Giles: chʻien¹-wa³
    • Yale: chyān-wǎ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chianwoa
    • Palladius: цяньва (cjanʹva)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ wä²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cin¹ ngaa⁵
    • Yale: chīn ngáh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsin¹ ngaa⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: qin¹ nga⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiːn⁵⁵ ŋaː¹³/

Definitions

瓩

1. (dated) Symbol for 千瓦 (qiānwǎ, “kilowatt”).

See also

• 兛 (qiānkè)
• 粁 (qiān)
• 粀 (zhàng)
• 籿 (cùn)

Japanese

Glyph origin

A 国字 (kokuji, “Japanese-coined character”) dating from the Meiji period in terms within the metric system. Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意): 瓦 (“gram”) + 千 (“one thousand”).

Kanji

瓩

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. (dated) Symbol for kilogram.

Readings

• Kun: キログラム (kiroguramu, 瓩)

Korean

Hanja

瓩 (eum 천 (cheon))

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