觠

觠 U+89E0, 觠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-89E0 ← 觟 [U+89DF] CJK Unified Ideographs 觡 → [U+89E1]

Translingual

Han character

觠 (Kangxi radical 148, 角+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 火手弓月土 (FQNBG) or 火手弓月手 (FQNBQ), four-corner 9022₇, composition ⿱龹角(GHT))

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1141, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35062
• Dae Jaweon: page 1608, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3925, character 2
• Unihan data for U+89E0

Chinese

trad.		觠
simp. #		觠

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
潫	*qroːn, *qon, *qron
豢	*ɡroːns
勬	*kron, *krons
韏	*kronʔ, *ɡrons, *kʰons
眷	*krons
桊	*krons
絭	*krons, *kʰrons, *kons, *kʰons, *koɡ
觠	*krons, *ɡron
飬	*krons
弮	*kʰron, *krons
拳	*ɡron
卷	*ɡron, *kronʔ, *krons, *ɡonʔ
齤	*ɡron
券	*kʰons

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): quán (quan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kyun⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: quán
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cyuán
    • Wade–Giles: chʻüan²
    • Yale: chywán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyuan
    • Palladius: цюань (cjuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰy̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: kyun⁴
    • Yale: kyùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kyn⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: kün⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰyːn²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: gjwen, kjwenH

Rime
Character	觠	觠
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	群 (30)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	仙 (80)	仙 (80)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	巨員切	居倦切
Baxter	gjwen	kjwenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡˠiuᴇn/	/kˠiuᴇnH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡʷᵚiɛn/	/kʷᵚiɛnH/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡiuæn/	/kiuænH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/gwian/	/kwianH/
Li Rong	/ɡjuɛn/	/kjuɛnH/
Wang Li	/ɡĭwɛn/	/kĭwɛnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/gi̯wɛn/	/ki̯wɛnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	quán	juàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	kyun4	gyun3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*krons/, /*ɡron/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	觠	觠
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	7161	7167
Phonetic component		
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	眷	權
Old Chinese	/*krons/	/*ɡron/

Definitions

觠

1. curled (of an animal horn)
2. bent
3. meandering, winding
4. to bend, to curve
5. to warp, to distort
6. (of the body of a human, animal or plant) to curl, to coil, to twist

References

• (Cantonese) Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 3), p. 204