管

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

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Chinese

trad.		管
simp. #		管

Glyph origin

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／形声, OC *koːnʔ) : semantic ⺮ (“bamboo”) + phonetic 官 (OC *koːn).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 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

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Japanese

Kanji

管

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)^{←くわん (kwan, historical)}
• Kan-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)^{←くわん (kwan, historical)}
• Kun: くだ (kuda, 管, Jōyō)
• Nanori: うち (uchi); すが (suga); すげ (suge)

Etymology 1

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

From Middle Chinese 管 (kuɑn^X, “pipe, tube”).

Noun

管(かん) • (kan) ^{←くわん (kwan)?}

1. pipe
2. a wind instrument

Etymology 2

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

From Old Japanese 管 (kuda, “pipe, tube”).

Alternative forms

• 莩 (rare)

Noun

管(くだ) • (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 prophecies of the future

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 管 (quản)

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