# 盥

| 盥 | U+76E5, &#30437; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-76E5 |
| ← 盤 [U+76E4] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 盦 → [U+76E6] |

## Translingual
### Han character

盥 (Kangxi radical 108, 皿+11, 16 strokes, cangjie input 竹難月廿 (HXBT), four-corner 7710$_7$, composition ⿱⿴𦥑水皿)

#### Derived characters

* 𤃗

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 796, character 12
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23041
* Dae Jaweon: page 1211, character 4
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2570, character 3
* Unihan data for U+76E5

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 盥 :
| Shang | Spring and Autumn | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 𦥑 (“pair of hands”) + 水 (“water”) + 皿 (“vessel”) – hands holding water from a vessel.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): guàn (guan$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄢˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): gun$^3$ / gun$^2$ / fun$^2$
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): kuang$^3$ / kuong$^3$
* 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$^3$ / gun$^2$ / fun$^2$
*** Yale: gun / gún / fún
*** Cantonese Pinyin: gun$^3$ / gun$^2$ / fun$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: gun$^3$ / gun$^2$ / fun$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /kuːn³³/, /kuːn³⁵/, /fuːn³⁵/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: kuang$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰuaŋ⁴⁵³/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: kuong$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰuoŋ³³²/
* Middle Chinese: kwanX, kwanH
Rime :
| Character | 盥 | 盥 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 桓 (62) | 桓 (62) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Closed |
| Division (等) | I | I |
| Fanqie | 古滿切 | 古玩切 |
| Baxter | kwanX | kwanH |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /kuɑn$^X$/ | /kuɑn$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /kʷɑn$^X$/ | /kʷɑn$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kuɑn$^X$/ | /kuɑn$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kwan$^X$/ | /kwan$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /kuɑn$^X$/ | /kuɑn$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /kuɑn$^X$/ | /kuɑn$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /kuɑn$^X$/ | /kuɑn$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | guǎn | guàn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | gun$^2$ | gun$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*koːnʔ/, /*koːns/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 盥 | 盥 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 4504 | 4505 |
| Phonetic component | 盥 | 盥 |
| Rime group | 元 | 元 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 管 | 貫 |
| Old Chinese | /*koːnʔ/ | /*koːns/ |

### Definitions

盥
* to wash (the hands or face)
* washbasin

#### Compounds

* 盥帨
* 盥櫛 / 盥栉
* 盥洗 (guànxǐ)
* 盥洗室 (guànxǐshì)
* 盥漱
* 盥濯
* 盥耳山棲 / 盥耳山栖

### References

* “盥”, 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–
* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “盥”, 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)

#### Readings

* Go-on: かん (kan)
* Kan-on: かん (kan)
* Kun: そそぐ (sosogu)、たらい (tarai)

#### Compounds

* 盥洗(かんせん) (kansen)
* 盥漱(かんそう) (kansō)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 盥
* たらい Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
Sound change from 手洗い (tearai).

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) たらい [tàráí] (Heiban – [0])
* IPA: [ta̠ɾa̠i]

### Noun

盥(たらい) • (tarai)
* tub, basin

#### Derived terms

* 盥船(たらいぶね) (taraibune)
* 盥回(たらいまわ)し (taraimawashi)
* 嗽盥(うがいだらい) (ugaidarai)
* 御盥(おたらい) (otarai)
* 金盥(かなだらい) (kanadarai)
* 下盥(しもだらい) (shimodarai)
* 洗足盥(せんそくだらい) (sensokudarai)
* 手水盥(ちょうずだらい) (chōzudarai)
* 角盥(つのだらい) (tsunodarai)
* 手盥(てだらい) (tedarai)
* 半挿盥(はんぞうたらい) (hanzōtarai)
* 馬盥(ばだらい) (badarai); or 馬盥(うまだらい) (umadarai)
* 鬢盥(びんだらい) (bindarai)
* 耳盥(みみだらい) (mimidarai)
* 我(わ)が家楽(いえらく)の釜盥(かまだらい) (wagaierakunokamadarai)

#### Descendants

* Korean: 다라이 (darai)

### References

* ↑ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

## Korean
### Hanja

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