簳

簳 U+7C33, 簳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7C33 ← 簲 [U+7C32] CJK Unified Ideographs 簴 → [U+7C34]

Translingual

Han character

簳 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 竹十十十 (HJJJ), four-corner 8844₁, composition ⿱𥫗幹)

1. shaft of an arrow

Derived characters

• 𬵾

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 901, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26592
• Dae Jaweon: page 1326, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3020, character 6
• Unihan data for U+7C33

Chinese

trad.		簳
simp. #		簳

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
訐	*krads, *krads, *ked, *kad
肝	*kaːn
竿	*kaːn
干	*kaːn
奸	*kaːn
玕	*kaːn
汗	*kaːn, *ɡaːn, *ɡaːns
迀	*kaːn
忓	*kaːn, *ɡaːns
鳱	*kaːn
邗	*kaːn, *ɡaːn
秆	*kaːnʔ
矸	*kaːnʔ, *kaːns, *ɡaːns
仠	*kaːnʔ
皯	*kaːnʔ
衦	*kaːnʔ
簳	*kaːnʔ
擀	*kaːnʔ
旰	*kaːns
盰	*kaːns
幹	*kaːns
杆	*kaːns
骭	*kaːns, *ɡraːns
桿	*kaːnʔ
趕	*kaːnʔ
稈	*kaːnʔ
刊	*kʰaːn
靬	*kʰaːn, *kʰaːns, *kreːn, *kan
衎	*kʰaːnʔ, *kʰaːns
犴	*ŋaːn, *ŋaːns
豻	*ŋaːn, *ŋaːns, *ɦŋaːns, *ŋ̊ʰraːn
頇	*ŋaːns, *hŋaːn, *ŋaːd
岸	*ŋɡaːns
鼾	*qʰaːn, *ɢaːns
罕	*qʰaːnʔ, *qʰaːns
焊	*qʰaːnʔ, *ɡaːns
蔊	*qʰaːnʔ
虷	*ɡaːn
旱	*ɡaːnʔ
皔	*ɡaːnʔ
釬	*ɡaːns
扞	*ɡaːns
閈	*ɡaːns
馯	*ɡaːns, *kʰraːn
捍	*ɡaːns, *ɡraːnʔ
悍	*ɡaːns
銲	*ɡaːns
垾	*ɡaːns
駻	*ɡaːns
睅	*ɡʷranʔ
娨	*ɡraːns
飦	*kan
赶	*ɡan, *ɡʷad
軒	*qʰan
蓒	*qʰan
酐	*qʰaːŋʔ
澣	*ɡʷaːnʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gǎn, gàn (gan³, gan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄢˇ, ㄍㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gon³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gǎn
    • Wade–Giles: kan³
    • Yale: gǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gaan
    • Palladius: гань (ganʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kän²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gàn
    • Wade–Giles: kan⁴
    • Yale: gàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gann
    • Palladius: гань (ganʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gon³
    • Yale: gon
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gon³
    • Guangdong Romanization: gon³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɔːn³³/

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• Middle Chinese: kanX

Rime
Character	簳
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	寒 (61)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	古旱切
Baxter	kanX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɑnX/
Pan Wuyun	/kɑnX/
Shao Rongfen	/kɑnX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kanX/
Li Rong	/kɑnX/
Wang Li	/kɑnX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kɑnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gon2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kˤarʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kaːnʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	簳
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gǎn
Middle Chinese	‹ kanX ›
Old Chinese	/*kˁarʔ/
English	slender bamboo
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	簳
Reading #	1/1
No.	3583
Phonetic component	干
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	笴
Old Chinese	/*kaːnʔ/
Notes	同笴見山海經

Definitions

簳

1. (literary) a kind of small bamboo

Japanese

Kanji

簳

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. shaft of an arrow

Readings

• Go-on: かん (kan)
• Kan-on: かん (kan)
• Kun: やがら (yagara, 簳)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
簳
やがら Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 簳 – see the following entry.

【矢柄やがら】 [noun] [from circa 934] the shaft of an arrow [noun] [from 1687] the cornetfish, members of genus Fistularia (from the long and thin body shape, resembling the shaft of an arrow) Alternative spellings 矢幹, ヤガラ

(This term, 簳, is an alternative spelling (rare) of the above term.)