關

See also: 関 and 关
關 U+95DC, 關
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-95DC
← 闛
[U+95DB] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 闝 →
[U+95DD]

Translingual

Traditional 關
Shinjitai 関
Simplified 关

Han character

關 (radical 169, 門+11, 19 strokes, cangjie input 日弓女戈廿 (ANVIT), four-corner 77772, composition ⿵門𢇇)

Derived characters

  • 𡅭, 𡤡, 𢺄, 𣠸

References

  • KangXi: page 1341, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41470
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1845, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4316, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+95DC

Chinese

trad. 關
simp. 关*
alt. forms 関
𨶚
𢇅
𬮦

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (卵) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
卵 *ɡ·roːlʔ, *ɡ·roːnʔ
關 *kroːn
関 *kroːn
聯 *ɡ·ron

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kroːn) : semantic 門 (“door”) + phonetic 𢇅 – to stop the door from opening with a wooden stick.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • guŏng - vernacular;
  • guăng - literary.
Note:
  • koaiⁿ/kuiⁿ/koaⁿ - vernacular;
  • koan - literary.
Note:
  • guên1 - vernacular;
  • guêng1 - literary.
Rime
Character 關
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 刪 (70)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古還切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠuan/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʷᵚan/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kuɐn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kwaɨn/
Li
Rong		 /kuan/
Wang
Li		 /kwan/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kwan/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 guān
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 關 關 關
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 guān guān guān
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kwæn › ‹ kwæn › ‹ kwæn ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ˤro[n]/ /*[k]ˤro[n]/ /*kˤro[n]/
English barrier 關關 kwæn.kwæn [bird’s cry] 間關 sound of a chariot"s linchpin (Ode 218.1)

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 關
Reading # 1/1
No. 8640
Phonetic
component		 卵
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 關
Old
Chinese		 /*kroːn/

Definitions

關

  1. to close; to shut
    Antonyms: 開／开 (kāi)
    關窗子 / 关窗子  ―  guān chuāngzi  ―  close the window
  2. to lock up; to detain
  3. to turn off; to switch off
    關電燈 / 关电灯  ―  guān diàndēng  ―  to switch the light off
  4. to concern; to implicate; to relate to
    這不關我的事。 / 这不关我的事。  ―  Zhè bù guān wǒ de shì.  ―  It does not concern me.
  5. frontier pass
  6. relation (family/contacts)
  7. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai

 関

Kyūjitai

 關

Kanji

關

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 関)

  1. a pass, such as in a mountain range
  2. relation, relationship

Readings

Usage notes

Not used in modern Japanese. Superseded by the shinjitai character 関.

Korean

Hanja

關 • (gwan, wan) (hangeul 관, 완, revised gwan, wan, McCune–Reischauer kwan, wan, Yale kwan, wan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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