莞 · guǎn
smiling; a kind of aquatic herb, clubrush, Scirpus lacustris
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
smiling; a kind of aquatic herb, clubrush, Scirpus lacustris
- Mandarin
- guǎn
- Cantonese
- gun1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 莞 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
- 완
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+839E
- Radical
- 艸 · 140
- Strokes
- 10 · Unihan
- Residual
- 7
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
10 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 莞
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 完 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 完聲
Line 1970 · ⿱艹完 · 完聲 · source reference 0120890
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- hwan · 胡官 反切 · #522
- Middle Chinese
- kwan · 古丸 反切 · #530
- Middle Chinese
- hwaenX · 戸板 反切 · #1584
- Middle Chinese
- kwanH · 古玩 反切 · #2650
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 4391 · hwan = 山合一平桓匣 · kwan = 山合一平桓見 · hwaenX = 山合二上刪匣 · kwanH = 山合一去桓見
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
- guǎn
- kCantonese
- gun1
- kDefinition
- smiling; a kind of aquatic herb, clubrush, Scirpus lacustris
- kTotalStrokes
- 10
- kRSUnicode
- 140.7
- kTGH
- 2013:4443
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- guān,guǎn,wǎn 53225.050
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- guān 0408.020 · guǎn 0409.030 · wǎn 1183.070
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- guǎn 121.100 · wǎn 379.040
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- guǎn粵gun2 wǎn粵wun2 guān粵gun1
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 胡官 古丸 戶板 古玩
- Kangxi positions
- 1034.200
- Guangyun positions
- 123.49 125.13 287.01
- GSR references
- 0257q
- Cangjie
- TJMU
- Four-corner
- 4421.1