柬

See also: 東

柬	U+67EC, 柬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-67EC

← 柫
[U+67EB]

CJK Unified Ideographs

柭 →
[U+67ED]

Translingual

Han character

柬 (radical 75, 木+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 木田火 (DWF), four-corner 5090₆, composition ⿻束丷))

Descendants

諫, 楝, 煉, 湅, 揀, 闌, 練, 鍊, 𣍃

References

KangXi: page 520, character 19

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14655

Dae Jaweon: page 908, character 14

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1179, character 4

Unihan data for U+67EC

Chinese

simp. and trad.		柬

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 柬
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (柬) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
蘭	*ɡ·raːn
攔	*ɡ·raːn
欄	*ɡ·raːn
瀾	ɡ·raːn, ɡ·raːns
讕	ɡ·raːn, ɡ·raːnʔ, *ɡ·raːns
闌	*ɡ·raːn
韊	*ɡ·raːn
幱	*ɡ·raːn
籣	*ɡ·raːn
躝	*ɡ·raːn
爛	*ɡ·raːns
爤	*ɡ·raːns
鑭	*ɡ·raːns
糷	*ɡ·raːns
斕	*ɡ·reːn
揀	kreːnʔ, ɡ·reːns
柬	*kreːnʔ
暕	*kreːnʔ
諫	*kraːns
練	*ɡ·reːns
鍊	*ɡ·reːns
煉	*ɡ·reːns
楝	*ɡ·reːns
萰	*ɡ·reːns
堜	*ɡ·reːns
湅	*ɡ·reːns

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 束 (“tie”) + 八 (“individually”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jiǎn (jian³)

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄢˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gaan²
Min Nan (POJ): kán

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: jiǎn
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄢˇ
  - Wade–Giles: chien³
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jean
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛn²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: gaan²
  - Yale: gáan
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gaan²
  - Guangdong Romanization: gan²
  - IPA ^(key): /kɑːn³⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kán
  - Tâi-lô: kán
  - Phofsit Daibuun: karn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kan⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kan⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kan⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kan⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kan⁴¹/

Middle Chinese: /kˠɛn^X/▼

Rime
Character	柬
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	山 (73)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	古限切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠɛn^X/
Pan Wuyun	/kᵚæn^X/
Shao Rongfen	/kæn^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kəɨn^X/
Li Rong	/kɛn^X/
Wang Li	/kæn^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/kăn^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiǎn

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*kˤr[a]nʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*kreːnʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	柬
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jiǎn
Middle Chinese	‹ kɛn^X ›
Old Chinese	/*kˤr[a]nʔ/
English	select, distinguish
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	柬
Reading #	1/1
No.	6138
Phonetic component	柬
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	簡
Old Chinese	/*kreːnʔ/
Notes	揀初文

Definitions

柬

letter; invitation
Short for 柬埔寨 (Jiǎnpǔzhài, “Cambodia”).
^† Alternative form of 揀／拣 (jiǎn, “to pick; to select”).

Compounds

折柬
柬埔寨 (Jiǎnpǔzhài)

柬帖
訂婚柬帖／订婚柬帖

請柬／请柬 (qǐngjiǎn)
遴柬

Japanese

Kanji

柬

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

On (unclassified): かん (kan); けん (ken)
Kun: えらぶ (erabu, 柬ぶ); てがみ (tegami, 柬)

Korean

Hanja

柬 • (gan) (hangeul 간, revised gan, McCune–Reischauer kan, Yale kan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

柬 (giản)

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