閑

閑 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+4, 12 strokes, cangjie input 日弓木 (AND), four-corner 7790₄, composition ⿵門木)

• 嫻 (娴), 澖 (𰛵), 㯗 (𱣡), 䥜, 鷴 (鹇), 䔵

• 𛀟

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1332, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41247
• Dae Jaweon: page 1837, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4287, character 3
• Unihan data for U+9591

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 門 (“door”) + 木 (“wood”) – a fence.

Related to 闌 (OC *ɡ·raːn, “railing; balustrade”), 欄 (OC *ɡ·raːn, “fence; railing”) and 攔 (OC *ɡ·raːn, “to obstruct”), and perhaps related to 練 (OC *ɡ·reːns, “to train”) (Schuessler, 2007). External comparanda may include Burmese ရန်း (ran:, “to erect railings, barriers”) or Mizo khâr (“to shut; to close; to shut off”) (ibid.).

閑

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) fence; bar; railings
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) stable (building for horses)
3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) rule; law; limit; norm
4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to restrict; to restrain
5. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 嫻 / 娴 (xián, “to be familiar; to be skilled; to be practised”)
6. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to block; to guard against
7. 4th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "barrier" (𝌉)

Probably cognate with 介 (OC *kreːds, “to increase; to become great”) and perhaps derived from 嘏 (OC *kraːʔ, “large; great”) (Schuessler, 2007).

閑

1. (obsolete) large; great

   • 松桷有梴，旅楹有閑，寢成孔安。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     松桷有梴，旅楹有闲，寝成孔安。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Sōngjué yǒu chān, lǚyíng yǒu xián, qǐn chéng kǒng ān. [Pinyin]

     Long are the projecting beams of pine;
     Large are the many pillars.
     The temple was completed, – the tranquil abode [of his tablet].

(Jōyō kanji)

• Go-on: げん (gen)
• Kan-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)
• Kun: ひま (hima, 閑)、しずか (shizuka, 閑か)、ならう (narau, 閑う)、しきり (shikiri)

From Middle Chinese 閑 (MC hean).

• (Tokyo) かん [káꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [kã̠ɴ]

閑(かん) • (kan) 

1. tranquil; calm; quiet
2. free time; leisure
3. unimportant; useless

閑(かん) • (kan) 

1. free time; leisure

• IPA^(key): [no̞do̞]

閑(のど) • (nodo) -na (adnominal 閑(のど)な (nodo na), adverbial 閑(のど)に (nodo ni))

1. (archaic) tranquil; calm; quiet; peaceful

閑 (eumhun 한가할 한 (han'gahal han))

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閑: Hán Nôm readings: nhàn, hèn

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