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.
  • Min Nan
    • Note:
    • koán - literary;
    • kńg/kúiⁿ/kún - vernacular;
    • kóng - 栱 is used in the Mainland.
    Note:
    • guang2/guêng2 - literary (guêng2 - Chaozhou);
    • geng2 - vernacular.
  • Wu
    • 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]ˁo[n]ʔ/ /*kʷˁa[n]ʔ/ /*kʷˁa[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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