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Modern (Beijing) reading: guǎn
Preclassic Old Chinese: kʷānʔ
Classic Old Chinese: kwā́n
Western Han Chinese: kwā́n
Eastern Han Chinese: kwā́n
Early Postclassic Chinese: kwā́n
Middle Postclassic Chinese: kwā́n
Late Postclassic Chinese: kwā́n
Middle Chinese: kwấn
English meaning : flute, pipe
Russian meaning[s]: 1) заведовать, управлять; 2) заниматься, ведать; интересоваться; 3) трубка; дудка; флейта; 4) узкий, ограниченный; мой; 5) счетный суффикс кистей; 6) Гуань (фамилия)
Comments: = 筦 q.v. Also used for a homonymous *kʷānʔ 'to manage'.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 118
Four-angle index: 1466
Karlgren code: 0157 h
Vietnamese reading: qua`n
Shijing occurrences: 42.2_
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Guaɫ
Meaning: think, consider
Chinese: *kʷānʔ to manage.
Kachin: gon2 to consider.
Lushai: hual to mark or make mental note.
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Number: 1870
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 山合一上緩見
ZIHUI: 4619 1958
Beijing: kuan 2
Jinan: kuã 2
Xi'an: kuã 2
Taiyuan: kuä̃ 2
Hankou: kuan 2
Chengdu: kuan 2
Yangzhou: kuo 2
Suzhou: kuö 2
Wenzhou: ky 21
Changsha: kõ 2
Shuangfeng: kuɛ̃ 2
Nanchang: kuɔn 2
Meixian: kuɔn 2
Guangzhou: kun 21
Xiamen: kuan 2
Chaozhou: kueŋ 21
Fuzhou: kuaŋ 2
Shanghai: kuö 3
Zhongyuan yinyun: kon 2
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