眷

眷	U+7737, 眷 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7737

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

眷 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 火手月山 (FQBU), four-corner 9060₃, composition ⿱龹目(GHT) or ⿱𠔉目(JKV))

simp. and trad.		眷
alternative forms		睠

Historical forms of the character 眷
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *krons): phonetic 龹 + semantic 目 (“eye”).

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: juàn
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jyuàn
  - Wade–Giles: chüan⁴
  - Yale: jywàn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiuann
  - Palladius: цзюань (czjuanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy̯ɛn⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: gyun³
  - Yale: gyun
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gyn³
  - Guangdong Romanization: gün³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kyːn³³/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: guóng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuɔŋ²¹³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koàn
  - Tâi-lô: kuàn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: koaxn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kuan²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kuan⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kuan²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kuan¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kuan²¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: guêng³
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kuèng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kueŋ²¹³/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai, Suzhou)
  - Wugniu: ⁵cioe
  - MiniDict: cioe^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²jyoe
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡ɕyø³⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /t͡ɕyø⁵²³/
- (Northern: Hangzhou)
  - Wugniu: ⁵ciuon
  - MiniDict: ciuon^去
  - Sinological IPA (Hangzhou): /t͡ɕyõ⁴⁵/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	眷
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	juàn
Middle Chinese	‹ kjwen^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ro[n]-s/
English	look on with affection
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

眷

(obsolete) to look back
- 乃眷西顧，此維與宅。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
  乃眷西顾，此维与宅。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
  Nǎi juàn xī gù, cǐ wéi yǔ zhái. [Pinyin]
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
(literary) to take interest in; to care for
眷顧／眷顾 ― juàngù ― to be concerned about

眷戀／眷恋 ― juànliàn ― to think fondly of
relatives
親眷／亲眷 ― qīnjuàn ― relatives

眷屬／眷属 ― juànshǔ ― relatives
- 武職人員也是三年一換。官兵都不准攜眷來臺，除少數例外。 [Taiwanese Mandarin, trad.]
  武职人员也是三年一换。官兵都不准携眷来台，除少数例外。 [Taiwanese Mandarin, simp.]
  From: February 2018, 臺灣歷史地圖增訂版, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 48, column 1
  Wǔzhí rényuán yěshì sān nián yī huàn. Guānbīng dōu bùzhǔn xī juàn lái Tái, chú shǎoshù lìwài. [Pinyin]
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
a surname

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眷 (eum 권 (gwon))

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眷: Hán Nôm readings: quyến, quấn, cuốn, quẹn

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