毌

See also: 毋, 母, and 田

毌 U+6BCC, 毌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6BCC ← 毋 [U+6BCB] CJK Unified Ideographs 母 → [U+6BCD]

Translingual

Stroke order (Japan)

Han character

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Radical 80 毌

毌 (Kangxi radical 80, 毋+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 田十 (WJ), four-corner 7775₀, composition ⿻⿻𠃋𠃍十(G) or ⿻⿻𠃋㇇十(HTJK))

Usage notes

This character should be written like the upper part of 貫 / 贯, but some fonts may display the character like 毋 (wú).

Derived characters

• 𪞈, 貫, 贯, 𡞔, 𣫻, 𬀆, 𪼨, 𧜍, 𥦾, 𦑢

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 588, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16722
• Dae Jaweon: page 980, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2380, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6BCC

Chinese

trad.		毌
simp. #		毌

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
毌	*koːn, *koːns
貫	*koːn, *koːns
樌	*koːns
鏆	*koːns
遦	*koːns
慣	*kroːns
摜	*kroːns
瑻	*kuːn
謴	*kuːns

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guàn (guan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gun³ / kwun³
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): guang⁴ / guong⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): koàn

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• 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 / kwun³
    • Yale: gun / kwun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gun³ / kwun³
    • Guangdong Romanization: gun³ / kuun³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuːn³³/, /kʷʰuːn³³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: guang⁴
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: gua̍ng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuaŋ⁴²/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: guong⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuoŋ⁴²/
• 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/

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• Middle Chinese: kwan, kwanH

Rime
Character	毌	毌
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	古丸切	古玩切
Baxter	kwan	kwanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuɑn/	/kuɑnH/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷɑn/	/kʷɑnH/
Shao Rongfen	/kuɑn/	/kuɑnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwan/	/kwanH/
Li Rong	/kuɑn/	/kuɑnH/
Wang Li	/kuɑn/	/kuɑnH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kuɑn/	/kuɑnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guān	guàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gun1	gun3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*koːn/, /*koːns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	毌	毌
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	4464	4467
Phonetic component	毌	毌
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	官	貫
Old Chinese	/*koːn/	/*koːns/

Definitions

毌

1. Original form of 貫／贯.
2. a surname

Derived terms

• 毌丘 (Guànqiū)

References

• “毌”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 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), “毌”, 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

毌

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): かん (kan)^{←くわん (kwan, historical)}
• Kun: つらぬく (tsuranuku, 毌く)

Korean

Hanja

毌 (eumhun 꿰뚫을 관 (kkwettureul gwan))

1. pierce

Vietnamese

Han character

毌: Hán Nôm readings: vô, quán

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References

• Nom Foundation