琯

琯 U+742F, 琯 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-742F ← 琮 [U+742E] CJK Unified Ideographs 琰 → [U+7430]

Translingual

Han character

琯 (Kangxi radical 96, 玉+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 一土十口口 (MGJRR), four-corner 1317₇, composition ⿰𤣩官)

1. a jade tube used as an instrument

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 735, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21072
• Dae Jaweon: page 1147, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1123, character 13
• Unihan data for U+742F

Chinese

simp. and trad.		琯

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
官	*koːn
棺	*koːn, *koːns
倌	*koːn, *kroːns
悹	*koːn, *koːnʔ, *koːns
涫	*koːn, *koːns
管	*koːnʔ
琯	*koːnʔ, *kuːns
痯	*koːnʔ, *koːns
輨	*koːnʔ
錧	*koːnʔ, *koːns
館	*koːnʔ, *koːns
婠	*koːns, *qoːn, *qruːd
悺	*koːns
逭	*ɡoːns
菅	*kroːn
綰	*qroːnʔ, *qroːns
捾	*qoːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *koːnʔ, *kuːns) : semantic 玉 (“jade”) + phonetic 官 (OC *koːn).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guǎn (guan³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gun²
• Eastern Min (BUC): guāng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: guǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: guǎn
    • Wade–Giles: kuan³
    • Yale: gwǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: goan
    • Palladius: гуань (guanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯än²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gun²
    • Yale: gún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gun²
    • Guangdong Romanization: gun²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuːn³⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: guāng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuaŋ³³/

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• Middle Chinese: kwanX, kwonH

Rime
Character	琯	琯
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)	魂 (55)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	古滿切	古困切
Baxter	kwanX	kwonH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuɑnX/	/kuənH/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷɑnX/	/kuonH/
Shao Rongfen	/kuɑnX/	/kuənH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwanX/	/kwənH/
Li Rong	/kuɑnX/	/kuənH/
Wang Li	/kuɑnX/	/kuənH/
Bernard Karlgren	/kuɑnX/	/kuənH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guǎn	gùn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gun2	gwan3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*koːnʔ/, /*kuːns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	琯	琯
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	4441	4461
Phonetic component	官	官
Rime group	元	文
Rime subdivision	3	2
Corresponding MC rime	管	睔
Old Chinese	/*koːnʔ/	/*kuːns/
Notes	說文管或體

Definitions

琯

1. an ancient wind instrument in the form of a tube made of jade and consisting of six holes

Compounds

• 玉琯
• 琯頭／琯头 (Guǎntóu)

 

Japanese

Kanji

琯

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. jade tube used as an instrument

Readings

• On (unclassified): かん (kan); こん (kon)

Korean

Hanja

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

1. jade tube used as an instrument