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Translingual

Han character

(radical 163 +7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 尸口弓中 (SRNL), four-corner 17627, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 1272, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39436
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1770, character 28
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3775, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+90E1

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (30)
Final () (59)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɡɨunH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɡiunH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɡiuənH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/gunH/
Li
Rong
/ɡiuənH/
Wang
Li
/ɡĭuənH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/gi̯uənH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jùn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jùn
Middle
Chinese
‹ gjunH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɡ]ur-s/
English district

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. 7302
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡluns/

Definitions

  1. (historical) An administrative subdivision of imperial China of various status over the centuries, usually translated as commandery or prefecture

Related terms


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. county
  2. district

Readings

Noun

(hiragana ぐん, romaji gun)

  1. county, district

Korean

Hanja

(gun) (hangeul , revised gun, McCune-Reischauer kun, Yale kwun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(quận, quặn, quấn, quẩn, quạnh)

  1. urban district (quận)