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Modern (Beijing) reading: guān
Preclassic Old Chinese: kʷān
Classic Old Chinese: kwān
Western Han Chinese: kwān
Eastern Han Chinese: kwān
Early Postclassic Chinese: kwān
Middle Postclassic Chinese: kwān
Late Postclassic Chinese: kwān
Middle Chinese: kwân
English meaning : office, magistrate; an official
Comments: Used also in a more abstract sense: 'function, organ' (e.g. 'sense organ' etc.).
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 0
Four-angle index: 0
Karlgren code: 0157 a-d
Vietnamese reading: quan
Jianchuan Bai: kuã4
Dali Bai: kua5
Bijiang Bai: qõ4
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *kʷāɫ
Meaning: servant
Chinese: *kʷān official.
Tibetan: khol servant; ãkhol (p. bkol, i. khol) use as a servant.
Burmese: kjwan (OB kjwan) subject, servant, LB *klwan.
Lushai: kōl a Burmese.
Comments: Bod. 137; Luce 54; Coblin 131.
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Number: 534
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 山合一平桓見
ZIHUI: 1351 1954
Beijing: kuan 11
Jinan: kuã 11
Xi'an: kuã 11
Taiyuan: kuä̃ 1
Hankou: kuan 11
Chengdu: kuan 11
Yangzhou: kuõ 11
Suzhou: kuö 11
Wenzhou: ky 11
Changsha: kõ 11
Shuangfeng: kuɛ̃ 11
Nanchang: kuɔn 11
Meixian: kuɔn 11
Guangzhou: kun 11
Xiamen: kuan 11 (lit.); kuã 11
Chaozhou: kuã 11
Fuzhou: kuaŋ 11
Shanghai: kuö 1
Zhongyuan yinyun: kon 1
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