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管

管 U+7BA1, 管
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7BA1
← 箠
[U+7BA0] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 箢 →
[U+7BA2]

Translingual

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Stroke order
 

Han character

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管 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 竹十口口 (HJRR), four-corner 88777, composition ⿱𥫗官)

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 889, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26162
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1316, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2986, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7BA1

Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Characters in the same phonetic series (官) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
官 *koːn
棺 *koːn, *koːns
倌 *koːn, *kroːns
悹 *koːn, *koːnʔ, *koːns
涫 *koːn, *koːns
管 *koːnʔ
琯 *koːnʔ, *kuːns
痯 *koːnʔ, *koːns
輨 *koːnʔ
錧 *koːnʔ, *koːns
館 *koːnʔ, *koːns
婠 *koːns, *qoːn, *qruːd
悺 *koːns
逭 *ɡoːns
菅 *kroːn
綰 *qroːnʔ, *qroːns
捾 *qoːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *koːnʔ) : semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 官 (OC *koːn).

Etymology 1

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trad. 管
simp. # 管

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • guāng - literary;
  • guōng - vernacular.
Note:
  • koán - literary;
  • kńg/kúiⁿ - vernacular (“measuring tool of half a sheng”).
Note:
  • guang2/guêng2 - literary (guêng2 - Chaozhou);
  • geng2 - vernacular.
Rime
Character 管
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 桓 (62)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古滿切
Baxter kwanX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kuɑnX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kʷɑnX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kuɑnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kwanX/
Li
Rong 		/kuɑnX/
Wang
Li 		/kuɑnX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/kuɑnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		guǎn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gun2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 管 管 管
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		guǎn guǎn guǎn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kwanX › ‹ kwanX › ‹ kwanX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[k]ˁo[n]ʔ/ /*kʷˁa[n]ʔ/ /*kʷˁa[n]ʔ/
English tube; flute exhausted, helpless helpless

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 管
Reading # 1/1
No. 4440
Phonetic
component 		官
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		管
Old
Chinese 		/*koːnʔ/

Definitions

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管

  1. (music) a cylindrical double-reed woodwind instrument made of bamboo or wood
  2. (music, by extension) any wind instrument
  3. (by extension) slender tubular hollow object; pipe; tube; duct; canal; valve; fistula
    吸管  ―  xīguǎn  ―  straw
  4. (literary) calligraphy brush; inkbrush
  5. Classifier for tube-shaped objects.
  6. to administer; to manage; to control; to be in charge
    管理  ―  guǎnlǐ  ―  to manage
  7. to subject someone to discipline; to discipline
  8. to concern oneself with; to interfere with
  9. to be responsible for the provision of; to provide; to supply
  10. to assure; to guarantee; to ensure; to keep
  11. despite; regardless of; irrespective of
  12. (colloquial) used in the pattern 管……叫…… (“to call (someone/something the name of)”), where 管 is followed by the entity that is being called a name
    臺灣人管花生也叫土豆。 [MSC, trad.]
    台湾人管花生也叫土豆。 [MSC, simp.]
    Táiwānrén guǎn huāshēng yě jiào tǔdòu. [Pinyin]
    Taiwanese people also call peanuts 土豆.
  13. (dialectal, colloquial) indicates the object of an action: to
  14. (Sichuanese) to be worth
  15. (Zhangzhou Hokkien) measuring tool of half a sheng (升 (shēng))
  16. a surname
    管寧／管宁  ―  Guǎn Níng  ―  Guan Ning
Synonyms
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  • (writing brush):
Dialectal synonyms of 毛筆 (“calligraphy brush; inkbrush”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 管, 翰
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 毛筆
Northeastern Mandarin Beijing 毛筆
Taiwan 毛筆
Ulanhot 水筆
Tongliao 水筆
Chifeng 毛筆
Hulunbuir (Hailar) 水筆
Harbin 毛筆
Singapore 毛筆
Jilu Mandarin Jinan 毛筆
Jiaoliao Mandarin Yantai (Muping) 水筆, 毛筆
Central Plains Mandarin Luoyang 毛筆
Wanrong 毛筆, 生紅 dated
Wanrong (Ronghe) 生胡
Zhengzhou 毛筆
Xi'an 毛筆, 墨筆, 生活 dated
Xining 生活, 筆
Xuzhou 毛筆
Lanyin Mandarin Yinchuan 毛筆, 生花 dated
Bayanhot 毛筆
Lanzhou 生活
Ürümqi 毛筆, 生活 dated
Jimsar 生活
Southwestern Mandarin Chengdu 毛筆, 墨筆
Wuhan 毛筆, 墨筆 dated
Guiyang 墨筆, 毛筆
Liuzhou 毛筆
Jianghuai Mandarin Nanjing 墨筆, 毛筆
Yangzhou 毛筆
Hefei 毛筆, 墨筆
Cantonese Guangzhou 毛筆, 墨筆
Hong Kong 毛筆
Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou) 毛筆
Dongguan 毛筆
Yangjiang 毛筆, 墨筆
Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu) 毛筆
Gan Nanchang 墨筆
Lichuan 毛筆
Pingxiang 墨筆
Hakka Meixian 毛筆, 水筆
Changting 毛筆
Wuping 毛筆
Ninghua 筆
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 毛筆, 水筆
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 毛筆, 水筆
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 毛筆, 水筆
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 毛筆, 水筆
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 毛筆, 水筆
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 毛筆, 膨筆, 水筆
Hong Kong 毛筆
Luchuan (Daqiao) 毛筆
Senai (Huiyang) 毛筆
Huizhou Jixi 毛筆
Jin Taiyuan 毛筆, 筆
Xinzhou 毛筆
Taibus (Baochang) 毛筆
Linhe 毛筆
Jining 毛筆
Hohhot 毛筆
Baotou 毛筆
Dongsheng 毛筆
Haibowan 毛筆
Northern Min Jian'ou 毛筆, 水筆
Eastern Min Fuzhou 毛筆, 墨筆, 水筆
Fuzhou (Changle) 毛筆
Fuqing 毛筆, 水筆
Yongtai 水筆
Gutian 水筆
Fu'an 水筆
Ningde 墨筆
Shouning 墨筆
Zhouning 墨筆
Fuding 墨筆
Southern Min Xiamen 水筆, 毛筆
Quanzhou 毛筆
Zhangzhou 水筆, 毛筆
Penang (Hokkien) 毛筆
Singapore (Hokkien) 毛筆
Manila (Hokkien) 毛筆
Chaozhou 毛筆, 墨筆
Johor Bahru (Teochew) 毛筆
Haikou 毛筆
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 毛筆
Wu Shanghai 毛筆, 墨筆
Suzhou 毛筆, 墨筆
Danyang 毛筆, 墨筆
Hangzhou 毛筆, 墨筆
Ningbo 墨筆
Wenzhou 墨筆
Jinhua 墨筆, 毛筆
Xiang Changsha 墨筆
Loudi 墨筆
Shuangfeng 墨筆, 寫字筆, 筆
  • (to concern oneself with):
Dialectal synonyms of 理 (“to be concerned with; to pay attention to”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 理, 管, 睬, 理睬, 理會
Northeastern Mandarin Beijing 理, 搭理, 搭咯
Taiwan 理, 管
Singapore 理, 管
Jilu Mandarin Jinan 理, 搭理
Central Plains Mandarin Xi'an 招, 理
Southwestern Mandarin Chengdu 理, 睬, 理視, 耳視, 張視
Wuhan 邇, 理, 睬
Guilin 理
Jianghuai Mandarin Yangzhou 睬
Hefei 理, 睬
Cantonese Guangzhou 睬, 理, 騷
Hong Kong 睬, 理, 騷
Yangjiang 理, 睬
Singapore (Guangfu) 理
Gan Nanchang 理, 搭
Hakka Meixian 睬, 唰
Jin Taiyuan 理, 理睬
Northern Min Jian'ou 理
Eastern Min Fuzhou 叕, 插
Southern Min Xiamen 插, 插趖, 插潲, 插管, 管待, 嘀厾, 理落
Quanzhou 插, 插趖, 插潲, 嘀厾
Zhangzhou 插, 插潲, 插管, 管待
Tainan 插, 管, 管待
Penang (Hokkien) 插潲
Singapore (Hokkien) 插, 插潲, 管, 插管, 甩
Manila (Hokkien) 插, 插潲, 管
Chaozhou 睬
Shantou 理
Jieyang 睬
Singapore (Teochew) 插
Zhongshan Min Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi) 理
Wu Shanghai 睬, 理 rare
Suzhou 理, 睬
Wenzhou 朝, 理
Xiang Changsha 齒
Shuangfeng 齒, 搭, 邇
  • (to assure):

Compounds

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Descendants

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Sino-Xenic (管):
  • → Japanese: 管(かん) (kan)
  • → Korean: 관(管) (gwan)
  • → Vietnamese: quản (管)

Etymology 2

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trad. 管
simp. # 管
alternative forms 廣／广 Hokkien
栱 Hokkien
㼦 Teochew
笁 Teochew

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Pronunciation

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Definitions

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管

  1. (Hokkien, Teochew) pipe; tube; short cylinder
  2. (Teochew) ladle

Etymology 3

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trad. 管
simp. # 管

Pronunciation

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管

  1. (Hokkien) Used in 頷管／颔管, alternative form of 頷頸／颔颈.

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Japanese

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Kanji

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管

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. pipe
  2. wind instrument
  3. administer
  4. brush; handle of a brush

Readings

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Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term
管
かん
Grade: 4
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 管 (kuɑnX, “pipe, tube”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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管(かん) • (kan) ←くわん (kwan)?

  1. pipe
  2. a wind instrument

Etymology 2

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Kanji in this term
管
くだ
Grade: 4
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese 管 (kuda, “pipe, tube”).[3][2][4]

Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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管(くだ) • (kuda) 

  1. a pipe or tube, such as that made of bamboo, wood, metal, or rubber
  2. a shuttle for weaving with a loom (from the way the earliest shuttles were made from bamboo tubes)
  3. the central axis of a spindle for winding the thread
  4. short for 管の笛 (kuda no fue), a kind of small pipe or flute used for signalling during a battle, similar to a fife
  5. an agricultural tool, used to gather up cut rice stalks
  6. short for 管狐 (kudagitsune), a kind of mythical fox roughly the size of a weasel, that would live in bamboo stalks and make prophecies of the future

References

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  1. ^ “管”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  4. ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN

Korean

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Hanja

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管 (eumhun 피리 관 (piri gwan))

  1. hanja form? of 관 (“pipe, tube”)
  2. hanja form? of 관 (“piri, a woodwind instrument”)

Vietnamese

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Han character

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管: Hán Nôm readings: quản

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