觀

See also 観, 覌, and 观

Translingual

shinjitai	観
simplified	观
traditional	觀

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 雚 + semantic 見 (“see”)

Han character

觀 (radical 147 見+18, 25 strokes, cangjie input 廿土月山山 (TGBUU), four-corner 4621₀)

1. see, observe, view
2. appearance

Descendants

• 観 观

References

• KangXi: page 1138, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34993
• Dae Jaweon: page 1605, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3677, character 5
• Unihan data for U+89C0

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Cantonese

Hanzi

觀 (simplified 观, Yale gun1)

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Japanese

Kanji

觀

Readings

• On: かん (kan)
• Kun: みる (miru)

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Korean

Hanja

觀
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 관 (revised: gwan, McCune-Reischauer: kwan, Yale: kwan)

• Name (hangeul): 볼()

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Mandarin

Hanzi

觀 (simplified 观, pinyin guān (guan1), guàn (guan4), Wade-Giles kuan¹, kuan⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

觀 ([quan], [quán])