韓

Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to: navigation, search
韓 U+97D3, 韓
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-97D3
← 韒
[U+97D2]		 CJK Unified Ideographs 韔 →
[U+97D4]
See also: 韩

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

韓 (radical 178 韋+8, 17 strokes, cangjie input 十十木一手 (JJDMQ), four-corner 44456, composition ⿰𠦝韋)

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 1394, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43159
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1909, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4506, character 21
  • Unihan data for U+97D3

Chinese[edit]

trad. 韓
simp. 韩
alt. forms 㙔
Wikipedia has articles on:
• 韓 (Written Standard Chinese?)
• State of Han (English)
• Zeta Ophiuchi (English)
• Han (surname) (English)

Glyph origin[edit]

Characters in the same phonetic series (倝) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
乾 *kaːn, *ɡran
漧 *kaːn
倝 *kaːns
榦 *kaːns
韓 *ɡaːn
鶾 *ɡaːn
翰 *ɡaːn, *ɡaːns
瀚 *ɡaːns
螒 *ɡaːns
雗 *ɡaːns
斡 *qʷaːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡaːn): phonetic 𠦝 (OC *kaːns) + semantic 韋 (“surround”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Rime
Character 韓
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 寒 (61)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 胡安切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦɑn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦɑn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦan/
Li
Rong		 /ɣɑn/
Wang
Li		 /ɣɑn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 hán
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 韓
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 hán
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ han ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɡ]ˤar/
English (state in the Korean peninsula; Three Kingdoms period)

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 韓
Reading # 1/1
No. 3702
Phonetic
component		 倝
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 寒
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡaːn/

Definitions[edit]

韓

  1. fence
  2. (～國) (historical) Han, an ancient Chinese county, viscounty, and kingdom of the Zhou Dynasty and the Qin–Han interregnum.
    1. The realm of this former state under other rulers.
    2. (astronomy) The star Zeta Ophiuchi in traditional Chinese astronomy, named for this state
    3. A surname​, named for this state
  3. (historical) common designation of Mahan, Byeonhan, and Jinhan, three ancient tribal federations located on the southern part of the Korean Peninsula
  4. Short for 韓國／韩国 (Hánguó, “Korean (especially South Korean)”).

Compounds[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

韓

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. Korea, Korean

Readings[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

韓 • (han)

  • Eumhun:
    • Sound (hangeul): 한 (McCune-Reischauer: han, Yale: han)
    • Name (hangeul): 한국 (revised: hanguk, McCune-Reischauer: hanguk, Yale: hankwuk)
  1. Korea, the Republic of Korea

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

韓 (hàn)

  1. Korea
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=韓&oldid=46750522"