謴

謴 U+8B34, 謴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8B34 ← 謳 [U+8B33] CJK Unified Ideographs 謵 → [U+8B35]

Translingual

Han character

謴 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+11, 18 strokes, cangjie input 卜口田十金 (YRWJC), composition ⿰訁貫)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1178, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35887
• Dae Jaweon: page 1642, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4016, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8B34

Chinese

trad.		謴
simp.		𬤆
alternative forms		䜇 𧬪

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
毌	*koːn, *koːns
貫	*koːn, *koːns
樌	*koːns
鏆	*koːns
遦	*koːns
慣	*kroːns
摜	*kroːns
瑻	*kuːn
謴	*kuːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kuːns) : semantic 言 (“speech”) + phonetic 貫 (OC *koːn, *koːns).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gùn (gun⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwan³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gùn
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gùn
    • Wade–Giles: kun⁴
    • Yale: gwùn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guenn
    • Palladius: гунь (gunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯ən⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gwan³
    • Yale: gwan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwan³
    • Guangdong Romanization: guen³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɐn³³/

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• Middle Chinese: kwonH

Rime
Character	謴
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	魂 (55)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	古困切
Baxter	kwonH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuənH/
Pan Wuyun	/kuonH/
Shao Rongfen	/kuənH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwənH/
Li Rong	/kuənH/
Wang Li	/kuənH/
Bernard Karlgren	/kuənH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gùn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gwan3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kuːns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	謴
Reading #	1/1
No.	4474
Phonetic component	毌
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	睔
Old Chinese	/*kuːns/

Definitions

謴

1. (obsolete) to banter; to tease