刊

See also 栞, and 判

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 刂 (“knife”) + phonetic 干

Han character

刊 (radical 18 刀+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 一十中弓 (MJLN), four-corner 1240₀)

1. publication, periodical
2. publish

References

• KangXi: page 136, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1865
• Dae Jaweon: page 307, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 323, character 14
• Unihan data for U+520A

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Cantonese

Hanzi

刊 (Yale hon1, hon2)

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Japanese

Kanji

刊 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: かん (kan)
• Kun: けずる (kezuru), きざむ (kizamu)

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Korean

Hanja

刊 (hangeul 간, revised gan, McCune-Reischauer kan)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

刊 (pinyin kān (kan1), Wade-Giles k'an¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

刊 (khan, san)