髡

Translingual

Han character

髡 (Kangxi radical 190, 髟+3, 13 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹一山 (SHMU), four-corner 7221₁, composition ⿱髟兀)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1452, character 31
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45361
• Dae Jaweon: page 1983, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4518, character 9
• Unihan data for U+9AE1

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		髡

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
虺	*hŋuːl, *hŋruːl, *hŋlulʔ
豗	*hŋuːl
鼿	*hŋuːl, *ŋuːd
虫	*hŋlulʔ
髡	*ŋ̊ʰuːn
軏	*ŋod, *ŋuːd
扤	*ŋod, *ŋuːd
兀	*ŋuːd
杌	*ŋuːd
屼	*ŋuːd
矹	*ŋluːd

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kūn (kun¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kwan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kūn
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kun
    • Wade–Giles: kʻun¹
    • Yale: kwūn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuen
    • Palladius: кунь (kunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu̯ən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: kwan¹
    • Yale: kwān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kwan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: kuen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷʰɐn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: khwon

Rime
Character	髡
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	魂 (55)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	苦昆切
Baxter	khwon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰuən/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰuon/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰuən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰwən/
Li Rong	/kʰuən/
Wang Li	/kʰuən/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰuən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	kūn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fan1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋ̊ʰuːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	髡
Reading #	1/1
No.	13195
Phonetic component	兀
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	坤
Old Chinese	/*ŋ̊ʰuːn/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 髡

1. (historical) to shave a male person's head as a punishment in ancient China
2. (figuratively) Buddhist monk
3. (figuratively) to trim the branches off a tree

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Korean

Hanja

髡 • (gon) (hangeul 곤, revised gon, McCune–Reischauer kon, Yale kon)

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