Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 冠

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 : cap

Russian meaning[s]: 1) шапка; головной убор совершеннолетнего; 2) гребешок (хохолок) птицы; 3) Гуань (фамилия); [guàn] 1) надеть шапку; стать совершеннолетним; 2) возглавить; увенчать собой; 3) превзойти

Comments: Also read *kʷān-s, MC kwần, Pek. guàn "put on a cap" (LZ).

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 14

Four-angle index: 7309

Karlgren code: 0160 a

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