鰥

See also: 鳏

鰥 U+9C25, 鰥 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9C25 ← 鰤ぶり [U+9C24] CJK Unified Ideographs 鰦 → [U+9C26]

Translingual

Han character

鰥 (Kangxi radical 195, 魚さかな+10, 21 strokes, cangjie input 弓ゆみ火ひ田中たなか水みず (NFWLE) or 弓ゆみ火ひ田中たなか火ひ (NFWLF), four-corner 2633₃, composition ⿰魚さかな眔)

Derived characters

• 𣤿

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1475, character 40
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46382
• Dae Jaweon: page 2007, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4706, character 9
• Unihan data for U+9C25

Chinese

trad.		鰥
simp.		鳏
alternative forms		鱞／𬶵 𥉀 𩶊 𩻴

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (眔) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
褱	*ɡruːl, *ɡruːl
鰥	*kruːn, *kruːns
嚃	*l̥ʰuːb
眔	*l'uːb
遝	*l'uːb

Etymology

From 寡 (OC *kʷraːʔ, “single; alone”) + *-n (“nominalizing suffix”) (Schuessler, 2007). See there for more.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guān (guan¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄢ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): gwaan¹

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): gan¹

• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): guan¹
• Eastern Min (BUC): guăng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): koan

  (Teochew, Peng'im): guang¹ / guêng¹

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹kue

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: guān
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: guan
    • Wade–Giles: kuan¹
    • Yale: gwān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guan
    • Palladius: гуань (guanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯än⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gwaan¹
    • Yale: gwāan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwaan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: guan¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷaːn⁵⁵/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: gan¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kan³³/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: guan¹
    • Sinological IPA: /kuan⁴⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: guăng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuaŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koan
    • Tâi-lô: kuan
    • Phofsit Daibuun: koafn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kuan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kuan³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kuan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kuan⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kuan⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: guang¹ / guêng¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kuang / kueng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuaŋ³³/, /kueŋ³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹kue
    • MiniDict: kue^平ひらた
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹kue
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /kue⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: kwean, kweanH

Rime
Character	鰥	鰥
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲こえ)	見み (28)	見み (28)
Final (韻いん)	山やま (74)	山やま (74)
Tone (調しらべ)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開ひらき合あい)	Closed	Closed
Division (等ひとし)	II	II
Fanqie	古ふる頑切きり	古ふる幻まぼろし切きり
Baxter	kwean	kweanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠuɛn/	/kˠuɛnH/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷᵚæn/	/kʷᵚænH/
Shao Rongfen	/kuæn/	/kuænH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwəɨn/	/kwəɨnH/
Li Rong	/kuɛn/	/kuɛnH/
Wang Li	/kwæn/	/kwænH/
Bernard Karlgren	/kwăn/	/kwănH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guān	guàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gwaan1	gwaan3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ʷˤrə[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kruːn/, /*kruːns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鰥	鰥
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	guān	guān
Middle Chinese	‹ kwɛn ›	‹ kwɛn ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ʷˁrə[n]/	/*[k]ʷˁrə[n]/
English	widower	a kind of fish
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	鰥	鰥
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	1951	1952
Phonetic component	眔	眔
Rime group	文ぶん	文ぶん
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	鰥	鰥
Old Chinese	/*kruːn/	/*kruːns/

Definitions

鰥

1. widower
2. widowed
3. (obsolete) yellowcheek (Elopichthys bambusa)

   Synonym: 鱤／鳡 (gǎn)

Compounds

• 孤こ寡鰥獨どく／孤こ寡鳏独どく
• 孤こ鰥／孤こ鳏
• 恫鰥／恫鳏
• 惸獨鰥寡／惸独鳏寡
• 惸鰥／惸鳏
• 煢鰥／茕鳏
• 老ろう鰥／老ろう鳏
• 虞おそれ鰥／虞おそれ鳏
• 貧ひん鰥／贫鳏
• 魴鰥／鲂鳏
• 鰥夫／鳏夫 (guānfū)
• 鰥嫠／鳏嫠
• 鰥孤／鳏孤
• 鰥守／鳏守
• 鰥官／鳏官
• 鰥寡／鳏寡 (guānguǎ)
• 鰥寡孤こ惸／鳏寡孤こ惸
• 鰥寡孤獨こどく／鳏寡孤独こどく (guānguǎgūdú)
• 鰥寡惸獨／鳏寡惸独
• 鰥對／鳏对
• 鰥居／鳏居 (guānjū)
• 鰥惸／鳏惸
• 鰥曠／鳏旷
• 鰥棍兒じ／鳏棍儿
• 鰥民／鳏民
• 鰥男／鳏男
• 鰥窮／鳏穷
• 鰥老／鳏老
• 鰥處／鳏处
• 鰥魚／鳏鱼
• 鰥魚渴鳳／鳏鱼渴凤
• 鰥鰥／鳏鳏

 

Japanese

Kanji

鰥

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. widower

Readings

• Go-on: けん (ken)^{←けん (ken, historical)←くゑん (kwen, ancient)}
• Kan-on: かん (kan)^{←くわん (kwan, historical)←くわん (kwan, ancient)}
• Kan’yō-on: こん (kon)
• Kun: やもお (yamoo, 鰥); やもめ (yamome, 鰥); やむ (yamu, 鰥む)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
鰥
やもめ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 鰥 – see the following entry.

【やもめ】 [noun] 鰥, 鰥夫: widower Alternative spelling 鰥夫

(This term, 鰥, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
鰥
やもお Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 鰥 – see the following entry.

【やもお】 [noun] (archaic) widower Alternative spellings 鰥夫, 寡男

(This term, 鰥, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

鰥 • (hwan) (hangeul 환, revised hwan, McCune–Reischauer hwan, Yale hwan)

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