Wiktionary

權

See also: 权 and 権
權 U+6B0A, 權
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6B0A
← 欉
[U+6B09] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 欋 →
[U+6B0B]

Translingual edit

Traditional 權
Simplified 权
Japanese 権
Korean 權

Han character edit

權 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+18, 22 strokes, cangjie input 木廿口土 (DTRG), four-corner 44914, composition ⿰木雚)

Derived characters edit

Descendants edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 563, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15926
  • Dae Jaweon: page 951, character 32
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1319, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+6B0A

Chinese edit

trad. 權
simp. 权
alternative forms 㩲
権
杈
 
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Glyph origin edit

Historical forms of the character 權
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Qin slip script Small seal script
   
Characters in the same phonetic series (雚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
觀 *koːn, *koːns
灌 *koːns
鸛 *koːns
瓘 *koːns
矔 *koːns, *kroːns
懽 *koːns, *qʰoːn
爟 *koːns
雚 *koːns
罐 *koːns
鑵 *koːns
歡 *qʰoːn
驩 *qʰoːn
貛 *qʰoːn
酄 *qʰoːn
獾 *qʰoːn
讙 *qʰoːn, *qʰon
嚾 *qʰoːns
權 *ɡron
顴 *ɡron
孉 *ɡron
蠸 *ɡron
虇 *kʰonʔ, *kʰons
勸 *kʰons

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡron) : semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 雚 (OC *koːns) – a type of tree named 黃華 (Shuowen); phonetically borrowed for "standard weight".

Etymology edit

From 拳 (OC *ɡron, “fist”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation edit

Note:
  • kuang5 - Shantou, Jieyang;
  • kuêng5 - Chaozhou.
Rime
Character 權
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 仙 (80)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 巨員切
Baxter gjwen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɡˠiuᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɡʷᵚiɛn/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɡiuæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/gwian/
Li
Rong 		/ɡjuɛn/
Wang
Li 		/ɡĭwɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/gi̯wɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		quán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		kyun4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 權
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		quán
Middle
Chinese 		‹ gjwen ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[ɡ]ʷrar/
English weight of a steelyard

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 權
Reading # 1/1
No. 4496
Phonetic
component 		雚
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		權
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡron/

Definitions edit

權

  1. power; authority
    權力／权力  ―  quánlì  ―  power; authority
  2. right; entitlement
    權利／权利  ―  quánlì  ―  right
    投票權／投票权  ―  tóupiàoquán  ―  right to vote
  3. † steelyard weight
  4. † scales
  5. to weigh; to measure; to judge
    權衡／权衡  ―  quánhéng  ―  to weigh; to judge
  6. expediency; adaptability
    通權達變／通权达变  ―  tōngquándábiàn  ―  to adapt to circumstances
  7. tentatively; for the time being
    權且／权且  ―  quánqiě  ―  for the time being
    權充／权充  ―  quánchōng  ―  to act temporarily as
  8. (statistics) weight
  9. a surname

Compounds edit

Descendants edit

Sino-Xenic (權):
  • → Japanese: 権(けん) (ken)
  • → Korean: 권(權) (gwon)
  • → Vietnamese: quyền (權)

Others:

References edit

Japanese edit

Shinjitai

権

Kyūjitai

權

Kanji edit

權

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 権)

  1. Kyūjitai form of 権

Readings edit

Korean edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Chinese 權 (MC *gjwen).

Pronunciation edit

Hanja edit

權 (eumhun 권세 권 (gwonse gwon))

  1. Hanja form? of 권 (“power; right”).

Compounds edit

Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

權: Hán Nôm readings: quyền, quàn

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