# 爟

| 爟 | U+721F, &#29215; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-721F |
| ← 爞 [U+721E] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 爠 → [U+7220] |

## Translingual
### Han character

爟 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+18, 22 strokes, cangjie input 火廿口土 (FTRG), four-corner 9481$_4$, composition ⿰火雚)
* fire

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 687, character 36
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19617
* Dae Jaweon: page 1099, character 20
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2248, character 5
* Unihan data for U+721F

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 觀 | *koːn, *koːns |
| 灌 | *koːns |
| 鸛 | *koːns |
| 瓘 | *koːns |
| 矔 | *koːns, *kroːns |
| 懽 | *koːns, *qʰoːn |
| 爟 | *koːns |
| 雚 | *koːns |
| 罐 | *koːns |
| 鑵 | *koːns |
| 歡 | *qʰoːn |
| 驩 | *qʰoːn |
| 貛 | *qʰoːn |
| 酄 | *qʰoːn |
| 獾 | *qʰoːn |
| 讙 | *qʰoːn, *qʰon |
| 嚾 | *qʰoːns |
| 權 | *ɡron |
| 顴 | *ɡron |
| 孉 | *ɡron |
| 蠸 | *ɡron |
| 虇 | *kʰonʔ, *kʰons |
| 勸 | *kʰons |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): guàn (guan$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄢˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): gun$^3$
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): guang$^4$ / guong$^4$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): koàn
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: guàn
*** Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄢˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: guàn
*** Wade–Giles: kuan$^4$
*** Yale: gwàn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guann
*** Palladius: гуань (guanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /ku̯än⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: gun$^3$
*** Yale: gun
*** Cantonese Pinyin: gun$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: gun$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /kuːn³³/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: guang$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /kuaŋ⁴²/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: guong$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /kuoŋ⁴²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koàn
*** Tâi-lô: kuàn
*** Phofsit Daibuun: koaxn
*** IPA (Xiamen): /kuan²¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /kuan⁴¹/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /kuan²¹/
*** IPA (Taipei): /kuan¹¹/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /kuan²¹/
* Middle Chinese: kwanH
Rime :
| Character | 爟 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 桓 (62) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 古玩切 |
| Baxter | kwanH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /kuɑn$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /kʷɑn$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kuɑn$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kwan$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /kuɑn$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /kuɑn$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /kuɑn$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | guàn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | gun$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*koːns/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 爟 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 4483 |
| Phonetic component | 雚 |
| Rime group | 元 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 貫 |
| Old Chinese | /*koːns/ |

### Definitions

爟
* to light a fire

### References

* “爟”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
* William Campbell (1913) A dictionary of the Amoy vernacular spoken throughout the prefectures of Chin-Chiu, Chiang-Chiu and Formosa (in Hokkien), 8th edition, Tainan: Taiwan Church Press, published 1961, →OCLC, page 351.
* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “爟”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 81.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): かん (kan)、けん (ken)、げん (gen)
* Kun: やく (yaku)

## Korean
### Hanja

爟 • (gwan) (hangeul 관, revised gwan, McCune–Reischauer kwan, Yale kwan)
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