官

See also: 宮
官 U+5B98, 官
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B98
← 宗
[U+5B97] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 宙 →
[U+5B99]

Translingual

Han character

官 (radical 40, 宀+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 十口中口 (JRLR), four-corner 30777, composition ⿱宀㠯)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 283, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7107
  • Dae Jaweon: page 558, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 921, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+5B98

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 官

Glyph origin

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

Variant form of 宮, roughly Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 宀 + 呂 – many rooms under a roof, an official building.

Pronunciation

Note: koaⁿ - vernacular, koan - literary.
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 官
Mandarin Beijing /kuan⁵⁵/
Harbin /kuan⁴⁴/
Tianjin /kuan²¹/
Jinan /kuã²¹³/
Qingdao /kuã²¹³/
Zhengzhou /kuan²⁴/
Xi'an /kã²¹/
Xining /kuã⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /kuan⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /kuɛ̃n³¹/
Ürümqi /kuan⁴⁴/
Wuhan /kuan⁵⁵/
Chengdu /kuan⁵⁵/
Guiyang /kuan⁵⁵/
Kunming /kuã̠⁴⁴/
Nanjing /kuaŋ³¹/
Hefei /kʊ̃²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /kuæ̃¹¹/
Pingyao /kuɑŋ¹³/
Hohhot /kuæ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /kuø⁵³/
Suzhou /kuø⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /kuõ³³/
Wenzhou /ky³³/
Hui Shexian /kuɛ³¹/
Tunxi /kuːə¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /kõ³³/
Xiangtan /kɔn³³/
Gan Nanchang /kuɵn⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /kuon⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /kon²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kun⁵³/
Nanning /kun⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /kun⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kuan⁵⁵/
/kuã⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kuaŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kuiŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kuã³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /kuaŋ²³/
/kua²³/
Rime
Character 官
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 桓 (62)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古丸切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kuɑn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʷɑn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kuɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kwan/
Li
Rong		 /kuɑn/
Wang
Li		 /kuɑn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kuɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 guān
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 官
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 guān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kwan ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kʷˤa[n]/
English official (n.)

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 官
Reading # 1/1
No. 4435
Phonetic
component		 官
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 官
Old
Chinese		 /*koːn/

Definitions

官

  1. official, public servant

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

官

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. government official

Readings

Korean

Hanja

官 • (gwan) (hangeul 관, McCune–Reischauer kwan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

官 (quan)

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