涓

涓	U+6D93, 涓 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6D93

← 涒
[U+6D92]

CJK Unified Ideographs

涔 →
[U+6D94]

Translingual

Han character

涓 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 水口月 (ERB), four-corner 3612₇, composition ⿰氵肙)

Derived characters

𪡵, 𪬙, 𠅻, 𫯗

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 627, character 2
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17541
Dae Jaweon: page 1029, character 6
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1624, character 6
Unihan data for U+6D93

Chinese

trad.		涓
simp. ^#		涓

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
絹	*kʷens
狷	kʷens, kʷeːns
蜎	ɡʷenʔ, qʷen, *qʷeːn
弲	qʰʷen, qʷeːn
娟	*qʷen
悁	*qʷen
捐	*ɢʷen
涓	*kʷeːn
鵑	*kʷeːn
睊	kʷeːn, kʷeːns
焆	kʷeːn, qred, *qʷeːd
鞙	kʷeːn, ɡʷeːnʔ
埍	kʷeːnʔ, ɡʷeːnʔ
罥	kʷeːnʔ, kʷeːns
羂	*kʷleːnʔ
瓹	*kʷeːns
梋	*qʰʷeːn
鋗	*qʰʷeːn
駽	qʰʷeːn, qʰʷeːns
琄	*ɡʷeːnʔ
剈	*qʷeːn
肙	*qʷeːns

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): juān (juan¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄩㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gyun¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): koan

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: juān
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jyuan
  - Wade–Giles: chüan¹
  - Yale: jywān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiuan
  - Palladius: цзюань (czjuanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy̯ɛn⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: gyun¹
  - Yale: gyūn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gyn¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: gün¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kyːn⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koan
  - Tâi-lô: kuan
  - Phofsit Daibuun: koafn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kuan⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kuan³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kuan⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kuan⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kuan⁴⁴/

Middle Chinese: kwen

Rime
Character	涓
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	先 (86)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	古玄切
Baxter	kwen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kwen/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷen/
Shao Rongfen	/kuɛn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwɛn/
Li Rong	/kuen/
Wang Li	/kiwen/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kiwen/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	juān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gyun¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*kʷeːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	涓
Reading #	1/1
No.	16069
Phonetic component	肙
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*kʷeːn/

Definitions

涓

(literary) brook; stream
(literary) tiny; negligible
(literary) to choose; to select
(literary) to clean; to clear

Compounds

中涓 (zhōngjuān)
龐涓 / 庞涓
涓人
涓吉
涓埃 (juān'āi)
涓流 (juānliú)
涓涓
涓滴
涓滴歸公 / 涓滴归公
涓潔 / 涓洁

Japanese

Kanji

涓

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): けん (ken)、えん (en)、げん (gen)
Kun: しずく (shizuku)、わずか (wazuka)、あな (ana)

Korean

Hanja

涓 • (yeon) (hangeul 연, revised yeon, McCune–Reischauer yŏn, Yale yen)

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Vietnamese

Han character

涓: Hán Nôm readings: quen, quên, quyên

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References

Nom Foundation