奸 · jiān
crafty, villainous, false
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
crafty, villainous, false
- Mandarin
- jiān
- Cantonese
- gaan1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 奸 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 간
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
Go deeperHán Việt (Thi Viện) ↗Wiktionary ↗
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+5978
- Radical
- 女 · 38
- Strokes
- 6 · Unihan
- Residual
- 3
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
6 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 奸
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 干 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 干聲
Line 8196 · ⿰女干 · 干聲 · source reference 4432300
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
姦
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- kan · 古寒 反切 · #517
- Middle Chinese
- kaen · 古顔 反切 · #547
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 4347 · kan = 山開一平寒見 · kaen = 山開二平刪見
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- jiān
- kCantonese
- gaan1
- kDefinition
- crafty, villainous, false
- kTotalStrokes
- 6
- kRSUnicode
- 38.3
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+5978 U+59E6
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+5978
- kGradeLevel
- 4
- kTGH
- 2013:577
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- gān,jiān 21025.010
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- jiān 0549.040
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- jiān 162.130
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- jiān(20)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- jiān粵gaan1