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Translingual

Han character

(radical 32 +5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 土中田中 (GLWL), four-corner 45106, composition)

  1. earth
  2. feminine, female
  3. 8th of the 8 trigrams
  4. second hexagram of the I Ching

References

  • KangXi: page 226, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4969
  • Dae Jaweon: page 461, character 28
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 431, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+5764

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /kʰuən⁵⁵/
Harbin /kʰuən⁴⁴/
Tianjin /kʰuən²¹/
Jinan /kʰuẽ²¹³/
Qingdao /kʰuə̃²¹³/
Zhengzhou /kʰuən²⁴/
Xi'an /kʰuẽ²¹/
Xining /kʰuə̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /kʰuŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /kʰũn³¹/
Ürümqi /kʰuŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /kʰuən⁵⁵/
Chengdu /kʰuən⁵⁵/
Guiyang /kʰuen⁵⁵/
Kunming /kʰuə̃/
Nanjing /kʰun³¹/
Hefei /kʰuən²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /kʰuəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /kʰuŋ¹³/
Hohhot /kʰũŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /kʰuəŋ⁵³/
Suzhou /kʰuən⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /kʰun³³/
Wenzhou /kʰaŋ³³/
Hui Shexian /kʰuʌ̃³¹/
Tunxi /kʰuɛ¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /kʰuən³³/
Xiangtan /kʰuən³³/
Gan Nanchang /kʰun⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /kʰun⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /kʰun²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kʰwɐn⁵³/
Nanning /kʰʷɐn⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /kʰwɐn⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kʰun⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kʰuŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kʰɔŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kʰuŋ³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /xun²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (29)
Final () (55)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰuən/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰuon/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰuən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰwən/
Li
Rong
/kʰuən/
Wang
Li
/kʰuən/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kʰuən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
kūn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
kūn
Middle
Chinese
‹ khwon ›
Old
Chinese
/*[kʰ]ˤu[n]/
English earth (trigram or hexagram)

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 7518
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰuːn/

Definitions

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Compounds

  • 乾坤干坤 (qiánkūn)
  • 乾坤一擲干坤一掷 (qiánkūnyīzhì)
  • 乾坤再造干坤再造
  • 坤伶
  • 坤儀坤仪
  • 坤元
  • 坤宅
  • 坤宮坤宫
  • 坤寧宮坤宁宫
  • 坤德
  • 坤戲坤戏
  • 坤書坤书
  • 坤書館坤书馆
  • 坤極坤极
  • 坤範坤范
  • 坤維坤维
  • 坤角
  • 坤軸坤轴
  • 坤輿坤舆
  • 坤造
  • 坤靈坤灵
  • 坤鞋
  • 壺裡乾坤壶里干坤
  • 弄乾坤弄干坤
  • 扭轉乾坤扭转干坤
  • 旋乾轉坤旋干转坤
  • 旋轉乾坤旋转干坤
  • 浪蕩乾坤浪荡干坤
  • 顛乾倒坤颠干倒坤
  • 顛倒乾坤颠倒干坤

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. southwest

Readings

Noun

(hiragana ひつじさる, romaji hitsujisaru)

  1. (obsolete) southwest

Korean

Hanja

(gon) (hangeul , revised gon, McCune-Reischauer kon)

  1. ( 곤, ttang-) earth
  2. (곤괘 곤, gongwae-) or the eighth of the Eight Trigrams, (☰☱☲☳☴☵☶☷ or 팔괘 (八卦, palgwae)) that exactly match with the three-digit binary numbers, counting from 0 to 7. Four (0, 2, 5, 7) out of eight trigrams are placed in the four corners of the flag of South Korea.
  3. (황후 곤, hwanghu-) queen

Antonyms

Synonyms

Compounds


Vietnamese

Han character

(khôn, khuôn)

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References