簳

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

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

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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/
Bernard 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

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Japanese

Kanji

簳

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. shaft of an arrow

Readings

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

Pronunciation

Kanji in this term
簳
やがら Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Noun

簳(やがら) or 簳(ヤガラ) • (yagara) 

1. Alternative spelling of 矢柄 (yagara): the shaft of an arrow; a cornetfish

Derived terms

• 赤(アカ)簳魚(ヤガラ) (akayagara)