髡

髡

髡 U+9AE1, 髡 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9AE1 ← 髠 [U+9AE0] CJK Unified Ideographs 髢 → [U+9AE2]

Translingual

Han character

髡 (radical 190, 髟+3, 13 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹一山 (SHMU), four-corner 7221₁, composition ⿱髟兀)

1. to shear tree
2. ancient punishment

References

• KangXi: page 1452, character 31
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45361
• Dae Jaweon: page 1983, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4518, character 9
• Unihan data for U+9AE1

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		髡

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (兀) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
虺	*hŋuːl, *hŋruːl, *hŋlulʔ
豗	*hŋuːl
鼿	*hŋuːl, *ŋuːd
虫	*hŋlulʔ
髡	*ŋ̊ʰuːn
軏	*ŋod, *ŋuːd
扤	*ŋod, *ŋuːd
兀	*ŋuːd
杌	*ŋuːd
屼	*ŋuːd
矹	*ŋluːd

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kūn (kun¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kwan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: kūn
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄣ
    • Wade–Giles: k'un¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuen
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰu̯ən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: kwan¹
    • Yale: kwān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kwan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: kuen¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kʷʰɐn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /kʰuən/▼

Rime
Character	髡
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	魂 (55)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	苦昆切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰuən/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰuon/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰuən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰwən/
Li Rong	/kʰuən/
Wang Li	/kʰuən/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰuən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	kūn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋ̊ʰuːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	髡
Reading #	1/1
No.	13195
Phonetic component	兀
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	坤
Old Chinese	/*ŋ̊ʰuːn/

Definitions

髡

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Compounds

留髡 髡殘／髡残

髡鉗／髡钳

髡髮／髡发

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Korean

Hanja

髡 • (gon) (hangeul 곤, revised gon, McCune–Reischauer kon, Yale kon)

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