贛

See also: 赣

贛 U+2F9D6, 贛 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F9D6 ← 賁 [U+2F9D5] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 起 → [U+2F9D7]

Translingual

Han character

贛 (Kangxi radical 154, 貝+17, 24 strokes, cangjie input 卜十竹水金 (YJHEC), four-corner 0748₆, composition ⿰章⿱夂貢)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1213, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36984
• Dae Jaweon: page 1680, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3661, character 19
• Unihan data for U+8D1B

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Chinese

trad.		贛
simp.		赣
alternative forms		贑／赣 干

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 贛
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
贛	*kluːmʔ, *kluːms, *kromʔ, *kloːms
灨	*kluːmʔ, *kluːms
竷	*kʰluːms
戇	*kr'oːms, *qʰloːms
洚	*kruːŋs, *ɡruːŋ, *ɡloːŋ, *ɡluːŋ
降	*kruːŋs, *ɡruːŋ
絳	*kruːŋs
栙	*ɡruːŋ
夅	*ɡruːŋ
跭	*ɡruːŋ
隆	*ɡ·ruːŋ
癃	*ɡ·ruːŋ
窿	*ɡ·ruːŋ
霳	*ɡ·ruːŋ

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gàn (gan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gam³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kàm

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• Mandarin
  • (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: gam³
    • Yale: gam
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gam³
    • Guangdong Romanization: gem³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐm³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kàm
    • Tâi-lô: kàm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kaxm
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kam²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kam⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kam²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kam¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kam²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: komX, komH

Rime
Character	贛	贛
Reading #	1/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	覃 (159)	覃 (159)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	古禫切	古暗切
Baxter	komX	komH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʌmX/	/kʌmH/
Pan Wuyun	/kəmX/	/kəmH/
Shao Rongfen	/kɒmX/	/kɒmH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kəmX/	/kəmH/
Li Rong	/kᴀmX/	/kᴀmH/
Wang Li	/kɒmX/	/kɒmH/
Bernard Karlgren	/kămX/	/kămH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gǎn	gàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gam2	gam3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*k[o]mʔ/, /*[k]ˤom-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kluːmʔ/, /*kluːms/, /*kromʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	贛	贛
Reading #	1/3	2/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gàn	gàn
Middle Chinese	‹ komX ›	‹ komH ›
Old Chinese	/*k[o]mʔ/	/*[k]ˁom-s/
English	the Gàn river	the Gàn river in Jiangxi
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	贛	贛	贛
Reading #	1/4	2/4	3/4
No.	6271	6272	6276
Phonetic component	夅	夅	夅
Rime group	侵	侵	談
Rime subdivision	3	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	感	紺	檢
Old Chinese	/*kluːmʔ/	/*kluːms/	/*kromʔ/
Notes			贛榆漢縣

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 贛

1. (～江, ～水) Gan River (a river in Jiangxi, China)
2. Abbreviation of Jiangxi, a province of China.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gòng (gong⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gung³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gòng
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gòng
    • Wade–Giles: kung⁴
    • Yale: gùng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gonq
    • Palladius: гун (gun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʊŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gung³
    • Yale: gung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gung³
    • Guangdong Romanization: gung³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʊŋ³³/

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• Middle Chinese: kuwngH

Rime
Character	贛
Reading #	2/3
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	東 (1)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	古送切
Baxter	kuwngH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/kuŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/kuŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kəwŋH/
Li Rong	/kuŋH/
Wang Li	/kuŋH/
Bernard Karlgren	/kuŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gòng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gung3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ˤom-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kloːms/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	贛
Reading #	3/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gòng
Middle Chinese	‹ kuwngH ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ˁom-s/ (dialect: *-om > *-oŋ)
English	tribute
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	贛
Reading #	4/4
No.	6290
Phonetic component	夅
Rime group	談
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	貢
Old Chinese	/*kloːms/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 贛

1. ^† to grant; to bestow
2. a surname

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 贛 – see 戇 (“stupid and honest; simple; blunt and tactless; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 戇).

References

• “贛”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

贛

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): こう (kō), く (ku), かん (kan), こん (kon)
• Kun: たまう (tamau)

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Korean

Hanja

贛 • (gong) (hangeul 공, revised gong, McCune–Reischauer kong, Yale kong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

贛: Hán Việt readings: cống

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