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)

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

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/

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	/kuɑn^X/	/kuən^H/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷɑn^X/	/kuon^H/
Shao Rongfen	/kuɑn^X/	/kuən^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwan^X/	/kwən^H/
Li Rong	/kuɑn^X/	/kuən^H/
Wang Li	/kuɑn^X/	/kuən^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kuɑn^X/	/kuən^H/
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

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

(Hyōgai kanji)

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)

jade tube used as an instrument