幵

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogram (指事): 干 + 干 – comparing two 干 side by side, even.

Note that in some early forms of 開, the unrelated 开 (two hands) is drawn as 幵.

Han character

幵 (radical 51 干+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 一十一十 (MJMJ), four-corner 1044₀)

1. even level. to raise in both hands

Derived characters

• 形

References

• KangXi: page 340, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9169
• Dae Jaweon: page 649, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 408, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5E75

---

Cantonese

Hanzi

幵 (Yale gin1)

---

Japanese

Kanji

幵

Readings

• On: けん (ken)
• Kun: たいらか (tairaka)

---

Korean

Hanja

幵 (hangeul 견, revised gyeon, McCune-Reischauer kyŏn, Yale kyen)

---

Mandarin

Hanzi

幵 (pinyin qiān (qian1), Wade-Giles ch'ien¹)

Last modified on 15 May 2012, at 06:15