关

CHARACTER · SOURCE RECORD

关 · guān

frontier pass; close; relation

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Meanings & readings

Meaning & readings

frontier pass; close; relation

Mandarin: guān
Cantonese: gwaan1

Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.

Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese

Readings recorded for 关 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

ショウ

Kun’yomi · hiragana

わらうえむわらいええみ

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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Source record & scope

Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property

ショウわらうえむわらいええみ

Korean 한국어

Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.

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+5173
Radical: 八 · 12
Strokes: 6 · Unihan
Residual: 4

Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.

Stroke order

6 strokes

Modern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.

Graphical structure

⿱丷天(G[H][M][T]J[V])

⿱八天(T[K]P)

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.

丷天

Words & connections

Words using 关

關心guānxīncare about; be concerned about 事不關己shì bù guān jǐa matter of no concern to oneself (idiom)咬定牙關yǎo dìng yá guānsee 咬緊牙關 yǎo jǐn yá guān 有關各方yǒu guān gè fāngall parties involved 關你屁事guān nǐ pì shì(coll.) None of your goddamn business!; Mind your own business!關門弟子guān mén dì zǐlast disciple of a master 關門打狗guān mén dǎ gǒulit. shut the door and beat the dog (idiom); fig. seal off the enemy's avenue of retreat, then strike hard 七星關Qī xīng guānsee 七星關區 Qī xīng guān Qū Search current dictionary records ↗

Character connections

送郑联朕

4 catalogue records include this shape in their first retained IDS. Graphical containment does not imply shared etymology.

Sentence context · 2 matches

Mandarin

无论如何，都不关你的事。

In any case, it's none of your business.

Source, contributors & licenses

Mandarin: Tatoeba #392268 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · Text editors: FeuDRenais, GlossaMatik · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: GlossaMatik
English: Tatoeba #36982 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: CM

Source text unchanged. Original contributor and text editors are credited from the source log, separately from the current owner.

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Written-form matches; sense and pronunciation are not automatically aligned. Corpus & selection ↗

History & distinctions

Related forms

關

Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.

Sources & reference

Evidence & next depth

Source editions & exact scope ↗

Retained Unihan properties

kMandarin: guān
kCantonese: gwaan1
kDefinition: frontier pass; close; relation
kTotalStrokes: 6
kRSUnicode: 12.4 37.3
kTraditionalVariant: U+95DC
kTGH: 2013:532

Readings across dictionaries

Xiandai Hanyu · 1983: guān 0407.020
Tongyong Guifan · 2013: guān 121.010
Reading counts · XDHYPLCD: guān(1758)

Small numbers locate dictionary entries; 粵 introduces Cantonese. Includes rare or historical readings. Source notation ↗

Reference desk

Kangxi positions: 0127.070 0879.050
Cangjie: TK
Four-corner: 8080

Unicode 17 · Unicode License V3 · field guide & exact source ↗

Sentences in context

Explore 2 examples using 关 ↗

Exact source-spelling matches. Open the reader for dictionary lookups, construction notes and related examples. Occurrence does not establish a particular dictionary sense.

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Structure & connections

0.10

310dictionary records using 关4forms using this shape0attributed sound links

⿱ Above / below

丷

天

Shape description
丷 above 天 · the shape used in China, Hong Kong (as a variant), Macao (as a variant), Taiwan (as a variant), Japan, Vietnam (as a variant)
Source notation ^⿱丷天$(G[H][M][T]J[V])
BabelStone · 2025-06-27. Encoded shape and region tags; graphical analysis does not establish historical function.

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Retained descriptions & scope

^⿱丷天$(G[H][M][T]J[V])

^⿱八天$(T[K]P)

All alternatives are retained. Only the first description drives component search and graphical links. Counts describe this snapshot, not frequency. Evidence and method.