款 U+6B3E, 款 ← 欽[U+6B3D] CJK Unified Ideographs 欿 →[U+6B3F]

(Kangxi radical 76, 欠+8, 12 strokes, Cangjie input 土火弓人 (GFNO), four-corner 47982, composition ⿰⿱士示欠 or ⿰𰧭欠)

  • 𫫬, 𢕫, 𢡜, 𢴪, 𣽟, 㯘, 䥗, 𫔋, 䲌, 𡪡, 䕀, 窾
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 569, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16107
  • Dae Jaweon: page 957, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2141, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6B3E

trad. simp. # 2nd round simp. 𤘯 alternative forms

Originally (kuài), phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): phonetic (OC *naːds) + semantic (“lacking, desire”), meaning “desire”. The component was simplified into via libian, similar to .[1]

Shuowen Jiezi interprets it as phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰloːnʔ): abbreviated phonetic (OC *kʰloːnʔ) + semantic (“lacking, desire”).

  1. money (of certain kind) 借jièkuǎn ― loan 存cúnkuǎn ― deposit
  2. model, type 幾車/几车 [Cantonese] ― gei2 fun2 ce1 [Jyutping] ― several types of cars 同手機/同手机 [Cantonese] ― tung4 fun2 sau2 gei1 [Jyutping] ― same model of phone
  3. signature
  4. (law) subsection; subparagraph; subclause (in bills)
  5. (Southern Min, Cantonese) appearance; being 衰 [Cantonese] ― seoi1 fun2 [Jyutping] ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  6. (Hokkien) Classifier for varieties: kind; sort; type ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
  • (kind): (Mandarin) 樣/样 (yàng), (Mandarin) 樣子/样子 (yàngzi)
  • “款”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2026.

(Jōyō kanji)

  • Go-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)
  • Kun: まこと (makoto, )、しるす (shirusu, 款す)

Kanji in this term 款 かんGrade: S on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 款 (MC khwanX).

  • IPA(key): [kã̠ɴ]

款(かん) • (kan) ←くわん (kwan)?

  1. intimacy; friendship
  2. section of an article in a law, code, etc.

款(かん) • (kan) ←くわん (kwan)?

  1. intimacy; friendship
  2. signature; sign and seal
  3. articles or clauses of an agreement, document of proof, etc.
  4. expense; money; funds
  • “△款”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015-2026

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

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款: Hán Nôm readings: khoản

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