盥

盥 U+76E5, 盥 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-76E5 ← 盤 [U+76E4] CJK Unified Ideographs 盦 → [U+76E6]

Translingual

Han character

盥 (Kangxi radical 108, 皿+11, 16 strokes, cangjie input 竹難月廿 (HXBT), four-corner 7710₇, composition ⿱⿴𦥑水皿)

Derived characters

• 𤃗

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 796, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23041
• Dae Jaweon: page 1211, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2570, character 3
• Unihan data for U+76E5

Chinese

simp. and trad.		盥
2nd round simp.		浂

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 盥
Shang	Spring and Autumn	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 𦥑 (“pair of hands”) + 水 (“water”) + 皿 (“vessel”) – hands holding water from a vessel.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guàn (guan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gun³, gun², fun²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: guàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: guàn
    • Wade–Giles: kuan⁴
    • Yale: gwàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guann
    • Palladius: гуань (guanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯än⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gun³, gun², fun²
    • Yale: gun, gún, fún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gun³, gun², fun²
    • Guangdong Romanization: gun³, gun², fun²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuːn³³/, /kuːn³⁵/, /fuːn³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: kwanX, kwanH

Rime
Character	盥	盥
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	古滿切	古玩切
Baxter	kwanX	kwanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuɑnX/	/kuɑnH/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷɑnX/	/kʷɑnH/
Shao Rongfen	/kuɑnX/	/kuɑnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwanX/	/kwanH/
Li Rong	/kuɑnX/	/kuɑnH/
Wang Li	/kuɑnX/	/kuɑnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/kuɑnX/	/kuɑnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guǎn	guàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gun2	gun3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*koːnʔ/, /*koːns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	盥	盥
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	4504	4505
Phonetic component	盥	盥
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	管	貫
Old Chinese	/*koːnʔ/	/*koːns/

Definitions

盥

1. to wash (the hands or face)
2. washbasin

Compounds

• 盥帨
• 盥櫛／盥栉
• 盥洗 (guànxǐ)
• 盥洗室 (guànxǐshì)
• 盥漱
• 盥濯
• 盥耳山棲／盥耳山栖

 

References

• “盥”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

盥

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: かん (kan)
• Kan-on: かん (kan)
• Kun: そそぐ (sosogu); たらい (tarai)

Compounds

Compounds with 盥

• 嗽盥(うがいだらい) (ugaidarai)
• 御盥(おたらい) (otarai)
• 金盥(かなだらい) (kanadarai)
• 盥洗(かんせん) (kansen)
• 盥漱(かんそう) (kansō)
• 下盥(しもだらい) (shimodarai)
• 洗足盥(せんそくだらい) (sensokudarai)
• 盥船(たらいぶね) (taraibune)
• 手水盥(ちょうずだらい) (chōzudarai)
• 角盥(つのだらい) (tsunodarai)
• 手盥(てだらい) (tedarai)
• 半挿盥(はんぞうたらい) (hanzōtarai)
• 馬盥(ばだらい) (badarai); or 馬盥(うまだらい) (umadarai)
• 鬢盥(びんだらい) (bindarai)
• 耳盥(みみだらい) (mimidarai)
• 我(わ)が家楽(いえらく)の釜盥(かまだらい) (wagaierakunokamadarai)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
盥
たらい Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Sound change from 手洗い (tearai).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) たらい [tàráí] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ta̠ɾa̠i]

Noun

盥(たらい) • (tarai) ^{←たらひ (tarafi)?}

1. tub, basin

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 金盥(かなだらい) (kanadarai)
• 盥船(たらいぶね) (taraibune)
• 盥回(たらいまわ)し (taraimawashi)

Descendants

• Korean: 다라이 (darai)

Korean

Hanja

盥 • (gwan) (hangeul 관, revised gwan, McCune–Reischauer kwan, Yale kwan)

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