管

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管 U+7BA1, 管
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7BA1
← 箠
[U+7BA0]		 CJK Unified Ideographs 箢 →
[U+7BA2]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

管 (radical 118 竹+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 竹十口口 (HJRR), four-corner 88777, composition ⿱⺮官)

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 889, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26162
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1316, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2986, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7BA1

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 管

Glyph origin[edit]

Characters in the same phonetic series (官) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
官 *koːn
棺 *koːn, *koːns
倌 *koːn, *kroːns
悹 *koːn, *koːnʔ, *koːns
涫 *koːn, *koːns
管 *koːnʔ
琯 *koːnʔ, *kuːns
痯 *koːnʔ, *koːns
輨 *koːnʔ
錧 *koːnʔ, *koːns
館 *koːnʔ, *koːns
婠 *koːns, *qoːn, *qruːd
悺 *koːns
逭 *ɡoːns
菅 *kroːn
綰 *qroːnʔ, *qroːns
捾 *qoːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *koːnʔ): semantic ⺮ (“bamboo”) + phonetic 官 (OC *koːn).

Pronunciation[edit]

Note:
  • guāng - literary;
  • guōng - vernacular.
Note:
  • koán - literary;
  • kńg/kúiⁿ/kún - vernacular;
  • kóng - 栱 is used in the Mainland.
Rime
Character 管
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 桓 (62)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古滿切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kuɑnX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʷɑnX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kuɑnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kwanX/
Li
Rong		 /kuɑnX/
Wang
Li		 /kuɑnX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kuɑnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 guǎn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 管 管 管
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 guǎn guǎn guǎn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kwanX › ‹ kwanX › ‹ kwanX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ˤo[n]ʔ/ /*kʷˤa[n]ʔ/ /*kʷˤa[n]ʔ/
English tube; flute exhausted, helpless helpless

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 管
Reading # 1/1
No. 4440
Phonetic
component		 官
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 管
Old
Chinese		 /*koːnʔ/

Definitions[edit]

管

  1. (music) a cylindrical double-reed woodwind instrument made of bamboo or wood
  2. (music, by extension) any wind instrument
  3. (by extension) slender tubular hollow object; pipe; tube; duct; canal; valve; fistula
    吸管  ―  xīguǎn  ―  straw
  4. † writing brush
  5. Classifier for tube-shaped objects.
  6. to administer; to manage; to control; to be in charge
    管理  ―  guǎnlǐ  ―  to manage
  7. to subject someone to discipline; to discipline
  8. to concern oneself with; to interfere with
  9. to be responsible for the provision of; to provide; to supply; to guarantee
  10. despite; regardless of; irrespective of
  11. (colloquial) used in the pattern 管……叫…… (“to call (someone the name of)”), where 管 is followed by the object of the verb
  12. (dialectal, colloquial) indicates the object of an action: to
  13. A surname​.

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 管

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

管

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Kanji in this term
管
かん
Grade: 4
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 管 (kuɑnX, “pipe, tube”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

管 (hiragana かん, rōmaji kan, historical hiragana くわん)

  1. pipe
  2. a wind instrument

Etymology 2[edit]

Kanji in this term
管
くだ
Grade: 4
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese 管 (kuda, “pipe, tube”).[2][1][3]

Pronunciation[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

管 (hiragana くだ, rōmaji kuda)

  1. a pipe or tube, such as that made of bamboo, wood, metal, or rubber
  2. a shuttle for weaving with a loom (from the way the earliest shuttles were made from bamboo tubes)
  3. the central axis of a spindle for winding the thread
  4. short for 管の笛 (kuda no fue), a kind of small pipe or flute used for signalling during a battle, similar to a fife
  5. an agricultural tool, used to gather up cut rice stalks
  6. short for 管狐 (kudagitsune), a kind of mythical fox roughly the size of a weasel, that would live in bamboo stalks and make prophesies of the future

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  3. ^ 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

管 • (gwan) (hangeul 관, revised gwan, McCune-Reischauer kwan, Yale kwan)

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

管 (quản)

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