爟

爟 U+721F, 爟 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-721F ← 爞 [U+721E] CJK Unified Ideographs 爠 → [U+7220]

Translingual

Han character

爟 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+18, 22 strokes, cangjie input 火廿口土 (FTRG), four-corner 9481₄, composition ⿰火雚)

1. fire

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 687, character 36
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19617
• Dae Jaweon: page 1099, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2248, character 5
• Unihan data for U+721F

Chinese

trad.		爟
simp. #		爟

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
觀	*koːn, *koːns
灌	*koːns
鸛	*koːns
瓘	*koːns
矔	*koːns, *kroːns
懽	*koːns, *qʰoːn
爟	*koːns
雚	*koːns
罐	*koːns
鑵	*koːns
歡	*qʰoːn
驩	*qʰoːn
貛	*qʰoːn
酄	*qʰoːn
獾	*qʰoːn
讙	*qʰoːn, *qʰon
嚾	*qʰoːns
權	*ɡron
顴	*ɡron
孉	*ɡron
蠸	*ɡron
虇	*kʰonʔ, *kʰons
勸	*kʰons

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guàn (guan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gun³
• 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
    • Yale: gun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gun³
    • Guangdong Romanization: gun³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuːn³³/
• 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: kwanH

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

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*koːns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	爟
Reading #	1/1
No.	4483
Phonetic component	雚
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	貫
Old Chinese	/*koːns/

Definitions

爟

1. to light a fire

References

• “爟”, 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–
• William Campbell (1913), A dictionary of the Amoy vernacular spoken throughout the prefectures of Chin-Chiu, Chiang-Chiu and Formosa (in Hokkien), 8th edition, Tainan: Taiwan Church Press, published 1961, →OCLC, page 351.
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “爟”, 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

爟

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): かん (kan)、けん (ken)、げん (gen)
• Kun: やく (yaku)

Korean

Hanja

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

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