盥

盥	U+76E5, 盥 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-76E5

← 盤
[U+76E4]

CJK Unified Ideographs

盦 →
[U+76E6]

Translingual

Han character

盥 (Kangxi radical 108, 皿+11, 16 strokes, cangjie input 竹難月廿 (HXBT), four-corner 7710₇, composition ⿱⿴𦥑水皿)

Derived characters

𤃗

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 796, character 12
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23041
Dae Jaweon: page 1211, character 4
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2570, character 3
Unihan data for U+76E5

Chinese

simp. and trad.		盥
2nd round simp.		浂

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 盥
Shang	Spring and Autumn	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 𦥑 (“pair of hands”) + 水 (“water”) + 皿 (“vessel”) – hands holding water from a vessel.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): guàn (guan⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gun³ / gun² / fun²
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): kuang³ / kuong³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: guàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: guàn
  - Wade–Giles: kuan⁴
  - Yale: gwàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guann
  - Palladius: гуань (guanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯än⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: gun³ / gun² / fun²
  - Yale: gun / gún / fún
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gun³ / gun² / fun²
  - Guangdong Romanization: gun³ / gun² / fun²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuːn³³/, /kuːn³⁵/, /fuːn³⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: kuang³
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: kuâng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰuaŋ⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: kuong³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰuoŋ³³²/

Middle Chinese: kwanX, kwanH

Rime
Character	盥	盥
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	古滿切	古玩切
Baxter	kwanX	kwanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuɑn^X/	/kuɑn^H/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷɑn^X/	/kʷɑn^H/
Shao Rongfen	/kuɑn^X/	/kuɑn^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwan^X/	/kwan^H/
Li Rong	/kuɑn^X/	/kuɑn^H/
Wang Li	/kuɑn^X/	/kuɑn^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kuɑn^X/	/kuɑn^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guǎn	guàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gun²	gun³

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*koːnʔ/, /*koːns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	盥	盥
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	4504	4505
Phonetic component
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	管	貫
Old Chinese	/*koːnʔ/	/*koːns/

Definitions

盥

to wash (the hands or face)
washbasin

Compounds

盥帨
盥櫛 / 盥栉
盥洗 (guànxǐ)
盥洗室 (guànxǐshì)
盥漱
盥濯
盥耳山棲 / 盥耳山栖

References

“盥”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “盥”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 81.

Japanese

Kanji

盥

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

Go-on: かん (kan)
Kan-on: かん (kan)
Kun: そそぐ (sosogu)、たらい (tarai)

Compounds

盥洗(かんせん) (kansen)
盥漱(かんそう) (kansō)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
盥
たらい Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Sound change from 手洗い (tearai).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) たらい [tàráí] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ta̠ɾa̠i]

Noun

盥(たらい) • (tarai) ^{←たらひ (tarafi)^?}

tub, basin

Derived terms

盥船(たらいぶね) (taraibune)
盥回(たらいまわ)し (taraimawashi)
嗽盥(うがいだらい) (ugaidarai)
御盥(おたらい) (otarai)
金盥(かなだらい) (kanadarai)
下盥(しもだらい) (shimodarai)
洗足盥(せんそくだらい) (sensokudarai)
手水盥(ちょうずだらい) (chōzudarai)
角盥(つのだらい) (tsunodarai)
手盥(てだらい) (tedarai)
半挿盥(はんぞうたらい) (hanzōtarai)
馬盥(ばだらい) (badarai); or 馬盥(うまだらい) (umadarai)
鬢盥(びんだらい) (bindarai)
耳盥(みみだらい) (mimidarai)
我(わ)が家楽(いえらく)の釜盥(かまだらい) (wagaierakunokamadarai)

Descendants

Korean: 다라이 (darai)

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

盥 • (gwan) (hangeul 관, revised gwan, McCune–Reischauer kwan, Yale kwan)

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[DJR-1] Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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