鬈

Translingual

Han character

鬈 (Kangxi radical 190, 髟+8, 18 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹火手山 (SHFQU), four-corner 7271₂, composition ⿱髟卷)

1. beautiful, curly
2. curly hair

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1455, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45490
• Dae Jaweon: page 1986, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4529, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9B08

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		鬈

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
腃	*kʰruls, *ɡron
卷	*ɡron, *kronʔ, *krons, *ɡonʔ
菤	*kronʔ
捲	*kronʔ, *krons, *ɡron
埢	*kronʔ
睠	*krons
弮	*kʰron, *krons
犈	*krons, *ɡron
棬	*kʰron
鬈	*kʰron, *ɡron
圈	*kʰron, *ɡronʔ, *kʰon, *ɡlonʔ, *ɡlons
蜷	*ɡron
踡	*ɡron
婘	*ɡron
蔨	*ɡronʔ, *ɡrunʔ
倦	*ɡrons
淃	*ɡrons
綣	*kʰonʔ, *kʰons
裷	*kʰonʔ, *qon

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): quán (quan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kyun⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: quán
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cyuán
    • Wade–Giles: chʻüan²
    • Yale: chywán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyuan
    • Palladius: цюань (cjuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰy̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: kyun⁴
    • Yale: kyùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kyn⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: kün⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰyːn²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: gjwen, khjwen

Rime
Character	鬈	鬈
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	群 (30)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	仙 (80)	仙 (80)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	巨員切	丘圓切
Baxter	gjwen	khjwen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡˠiuᴇn/	/kʰˠiuᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡʷᵚiɛn/	/kʰʷᵚiɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡiuæn/	/kʰiuæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/gwian/	/kʰwian/
Li Rong	/ɡjuɛn/	/kʰjuɛn/
Wang Li	/ɡĭwɛn/	/kʰĭwɛn/
Bernard Karlgren	/gi̯wɛn/	/kʰi̯wɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	quán	quān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	kyun4	hyun1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ]ʷren/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰron/, /*ɡron/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鬈
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	quán
Middle Chinese	‹ gjwen ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]ʷren/
English	handsome (hair?)
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	鬈	鬈
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	7188	7190
Phonetic component	卷	卷
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	弮	權
Old Chinese	/*kʰron/	/*ɡron/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

鬈

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. fine growth of hair curly hair

Readings

• On (unclassified): けん (ken), げん (gen)
• Kun: うるわしい (uruwashii)

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Korean

Hanja

鬈 • (gwon) (hangeul 권, revised gwon, McCune–Reischauer kwŏn, Yale kwen)

1. beautiful
2. curly hair