# 鰥

| 鰥 | U+9C25, &#39973; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9C25 |
| ← 鰤 [U+9C24] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 鰦 → [U+9C26] |

## Translingual
### Han character

鰥 (Kangxi radical 195, 魚+10, 21 strokes, cangjie input 弓火田中水 (NFWLE) or 弓火田中火 (NFWLF), four-corner 2633$_3$, composition ⿰魚眔)

#### Derived characters

* 𣤿

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1475, character 40
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46382
* Dae Jaweon: page 2007, character 25
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4706, character 9
* Unihan data for U+9C25

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 褱 | *ɡruːl, *ɡruːl |
| 鰥 | *kruːn, *kruːns |
| 嚃 | *l̥ʰuːb |
| 眔 | *l'uːb |
| 遝 | *l'uːb |

### Etymology

From 寡 (OC *kʷraːʔ, “single; alone”) + *-n (“nominalizing suffix”) (Schuessler, 2007). See there for more.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): guān (guan$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄢ
* Cantonese
    (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): gwaan$^1$
    (Taishan, Wiktionary): gan$^1$
* Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): guan$^1$
* Eastern Min (BUC): guăng
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): koan
    (Teochew, Peng'im): guang$^1$ / guêng$^1$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^1$kue
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: guān
*** Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄢ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: guan
*** Wade–Giles: kuan$^1$
*** Yale: gwān
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guan
*** Palladius: гуань (guanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /ku̯än⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: gwaan$^1$
*** Yale: gwāan
*** Cantonese Pinyin: gwaan$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: guan$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /kʷaːn⁵⁵/
** (Taishanese, Taicheng)
*** Wiktionary: gan$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /kan³³/
* Hakka
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: guan$^1$
*** Sinological IPA: /kuan⁴⁴/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: guăng
*** Sinological IPA : /kuaŋ⁵⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koan
*** Tâi-lô: kuan
*** Phofsit Daibuun: koafn
*** IPA (Xiamen): /kuan⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /kuan³³/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /kuan⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Taipei): /kuan⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /kuan⁴⁴/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: guang$^1$ / guêng$^1$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kuang / kueng
*** Sinological IPA : /kuaŋ³³/, /kueŋ³³/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^1$kue
*** MiniDict: kue$^平$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^1$kue
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /kue⁵³/
* Middle Chinese: kwean, kweanH
Rime :
| Character | 鰥 | 鰥 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 山 (74) | 山 (74) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Closed |
| Division (等) | II | II |
| Fanqie | 古頑切 | 古幻切 |
| Baxter | kwean | kweanH |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /kˠuɛn/ | /kˠuɛn$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /kʷᵚæn/ | /kʷᵚæn$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kuæn/ | /kuæn$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kwəɨn/ | /kwəɨn$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /kuɛn/ | /kuɛn$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /kwæn/ | /kwæn$^H$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /kwăn/ | /kwăn$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | guān | guàn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | gwaan$^1$ | gwaan$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ʷˤrə[n]/
    (Zhengzhang): /*kruːn/, /*kruːns/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 鰥 | 鰥 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | guān | guān |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ kwɛn › | ‹ kwɛn › |
| Old Chinese | /*[k]ʷˁrə[n]/ | /*[k]ʷˁrə[n]/ |
| English | widower | a kind of fish |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. |||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 鰥 | 鰥 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 1951 | 1952 |
| Phonetic component | 眔 | 眔 |
| Rime group | 文 | 文 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 鰥 | 鰥 |
| Old Chinese | /*kruːn/ | /*kruːns/ |

### Definitions

鰥
* widower
* widowed
* (obsolete) yellowcheek (Elopichthys bambusa)
    Synonym: 鱤／鳡 (gǎn)

### Compounds

* 孤寡鰥獨／孤寡鳏独
* 孤鰥／孤鳏
* 恫鰥／恫鳏
* 惸獨鰥寡／惸独鳏寡
* 惸鰥／惸鳏
* 煢鰥／茕鳏
* 老鰥／老鳏
* 虞鰥／虞鳏
* 貧鰥／贫鳏
* 魴鰥／鲂鳏
* 鰥夫／鳏夫 (guānfū)
* 鰥嫠／鳏嫠
* 鰥孤／鳏孤
* 鰥守／鳏守
* 鰥官／鳏官
* 鰥寡／鳏寡 (guānguǎ)
* 鰥寡孤惸／鳏寡孤惸
* 鰥寡孤獨／鳏寡孤独 (guānguǎgūdú)
* 鰥寡惸獨／鳏寡惸独
* 鰥對／鳏对
* 鰥居／鳏居 (guānjū)
* 鰥惸／鳏惸
* 鰥曠／鳏旷
* 鰥棍兒／鳏棍儿
* 鰥民／鳏民
* 鰥男／鳏男
* 鰥窮／鳏穷
* 鰥老／鳏老
* 鰥處／鳏处
* 鰥魚／鳏鱼
* 鰥魚渴鳳／鳏鱼渴凤
* 鰥鰥／鳏鳏

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* widower

#### Readings

* Go-on: けん (ken)
* Kan-on: かん (kan)
* Kan’yō-on: こん (kon)
* Kun: やもお (yamoo, 鰥)、やもめ (yamome, 鰥)、やむ (yamu, 鰥む)

### Etymology 1

* Kanji in this term
* 鰥
* やもめ Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 鰥 – see the following entry. :
| 【やもめ】 | [noun] 鰥, 鰥夫: widower Alternative spelling 鰥夫 |
(This term, 鰥, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) :

### Etymology 2

* Kanji in this term
* 鰥
* やもお Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 鰥 – see the following entry. :
| 【やもお】 | [noun] (archaic) widower Alternative spellings 鰥夫, 寡男 |
(This term, 鰥, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) :

## Korean
### Hanja

鰥 • (hwan) (hangeul 환, revised hwan, McCune–Reischauer hwan, Yale hwan)
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