Character: 灌
Modern (Beijing) reading: guàn
Preclassic Old Chinese: kʷārs
Classic Old Chinese: kwānh
Western Han Chinese: kwānh
Eastern Han Chinese: kwānh
Early Postclassic Chinese: kwā̀n
Middle Postclassic Chinese: kwā̀n
Late Postclassic Chinese: kwā̀n
Middle Chinese: kwần
English meaning : thickly growing bushes, bushy clumps
Russian meaning[s]: 1) орошать; поливать; вливать; 2) фото фиксировать; 3) поставить (вино); угощать, поить; 4) Гуань (фамилия)
Shuowen gloss: 灌水.出盧江雩婁.從水.�聲.
Comments:
Schüssler for some reason considers this word to be a variant of 貫 *kʷān
'to go through the center' - which is both semantically and phonetically
improbable.
Other attested meanings are 'be clamoring' (within a reduplication and
obviously onomatopoeic) and 'to pour'.
The basic meaning of the character is 'name of a river (Guanjiang)' (this
is the gloss found in Shuowen); but during Early Zhou the only attested usage of
it is for the homonymous 'thickly growing bushes', 'be clamoring' and 'to pour'.
Radical: 85
Four-angle index: 928
Karlgren code: 0158 f
Shijing occurrences: 2.1
