# 笴

| 笴 | U+7B34, &#31540; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7B34 |
| ← 笳 [U+7B33] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 笵 → [U+7B35] |

## Translingual
### Han character

笴 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹一弓口 (HMNR), four-corner 8862$_1$, composition ⿱𥫗可)

#### Derived characters

* 𣘠

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 881, character 12
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25951
* Dae Jaweon: page 1310, character 1
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2953, character 13
* Unihan data for U+7B34

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 砢 | *ɡ·raːlʔ |
| 柯 | *kaːl |
| 菏 | *kaːl, *ɡaːl |
| 牁 | *kaːl |
| 滒 | *kaːl |
| 哥 | *kaːl |
| 歌 | *kaːl |
| 謌 | *kaːl |
| 鴚 | *kaːl |
| 哿 | *kaːlʔ |
| 舸 | *kaːlʔ |
| 笴 | *kaːlʔ, *kaːnʔ |
| 軻 | *kʰaːl, *kʰaːlʔ, *kʰaːls |
| 珂 | *kʰaːl |
| 可 | *kʰaːlʔ |
| 岢 | *kʰaːlʔ |
| 坷 | *kʰaːlʔ, *kʰaːls |
| 蚵 | *kʰaːls, *ɡaːl |
| 呵 | *qʰaːl, *qʰaːls |
| 訶 | *qʰaːl |
| 抲 | *qʰaːl |
| 荷 | *qʰaːls, *ɡaːl, *ɡaːlʔ |
| 何 | *ɡaːl, *ɡaːlʔ |
| 河 | *ɡaːl |
| 苛 | *ɡaːl |
| 魺 | *ɡaːl |
| 袔 | *ɡaːls |
| 阿 | *qaːl |
| 妸 | *qaːl, *qaːlʔ |
| 疴 | *qaːl, *kʰraːls |
| 鈳 | *qaːl |
| 娿 | *qaːl, *qaːlʔ |
| 痾 | *qaːl |
| 跒 | *kʰraːlʔ |
| 閜 | *qʰraːlʔ |

### Etymology

Variant of 竿 (OC *kaːn, “pole”) (Schuessler, 2007).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): gǎn, gě
    (Zhuyin): ㄍㄢˇ, ㄍㄜˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): gon$^2$ / go$^2$ / gou$^2$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland; variant in Taiwan)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: gǎn
*** Zhuyin: ㄍㄢˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: gǎn
*** Wade–Giles: kan$^3$
*** Yale: gǎn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gaan
*** Palladius: гань (ganʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /kän²¹⁴/
** (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan; variant in Mainland)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: gě
*** Zhuyin: ㄍㄜˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: gě
*** Wade–Giles: ko$^3$
*** Yale: gě
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gee
*** Palladius: гэ (gɛ)
*** Sinological IPA : /kɤ²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: gon$^2$ / go$^2$ / gou$^2$
*** Yale: gón / gó / góu
*** Cantonese Pinyin: gon$^2$ / go$^2$ / gou$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: gon$^2$ / go$^2$ / gou$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /kɔːn³⁵/, /kɔː³⁵/, /kou̯³⁵/
* Middle Chinese: kanX, kaX
Rime :
| Character | 笴 | 笴 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 寒 (61) | 歌 (94) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | I | I |
| Fanqie | 古旱切 | 古我切 |
| Baxter | kanX | kaX |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /kɑn$^X$/ | /kɑ$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /kɑn$^X$/ | /kɑ$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kɑn$^X$/ | /kɑ$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kan$^X$/ | /ka$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /kɑn$^X$/ | /kɑ$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /kɑn$^X$/ | /kɑ$^X$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /kɑn$^X$/ | /kɑ$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | gǎn | gě |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | gon$^2$ | go$^2$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*kˤarʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*kaːlʔ/, /*kaːnʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 笴 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | gǎn |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ kan$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*kˁarʔ/ |
| English | shaft of an arrow |
| 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 | 笴 | 笴 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 7443 | 7479 |
| Phonetic component | 可 | 可 |
| Rime group | 歌 | 元 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 哿 | 笴 |
| Old Chinese | /*kaːlʔ/ | /*kaːnʔ/ |

### Definitions

笴
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) arrow shaft
    From: Tang Dynasty, Fan Chuo, Manshu, chapter 7, part 21
    Zhūgǎn, chū Líshuǐ, zhuāng yǐ jīn qióng tiě dàng, suǒ zhǐ wú bù dòng yě. [Pinyin]
    The red arrow shaft is a product of Li​shui​, and is decorated with a golden fuller and an iron guard, and they are always hollow.
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) arrow

### References

* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B03177
* “笴”, 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–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): か (ka)、こう (kō)、かん (kan)
* Kun: やがら (yagara)