梱

See also: 阃

梱 U+68B1, 梱 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-68B1 ← 械 [U+68B0] CJK Unified Ideographs 梲 → [U+68B2]

Translingual

Han character

梱 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 木田木 (DWD) or 難木田木 (XDWD), four-corner 4690₀, composition ⿰木困)

1. doorsill
2. doorjamb

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 531, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14883
• Dae Jaweon: page 919, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1214, character 3
• Unihan data for U+68B1

Chinese

simp. and trad.		梱

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (困) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
硱	*kʰɯŋ, *kʰuːnʔ
梱	*ŋɡuːn, *kʰuːnʔ
捆	*kʰuːnʔ
綑	*kʰuːnʔ
閫	*kʰuːnʔ
悃	*kʰuːnʔ
稛	*kʰuːnʔ
裍	*kʰuːnʔ
齫	*kʰuːnʔ
困	*kʰuːns
涃	*kʰuːns

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kǔn (kun³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kwan²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kǔn
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kǔn
    • Wade–Giles: kʻun³
    • Yale: kwǔn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: koen
    • Palladius: кунь (kunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu̯ən²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: kwan²
    • Yale: kwán
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kwan²
    • Guangdong Romanization: kuen²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷʰɐn³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: ngwon, khwonX

Rime
Character	梱	梱
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	魂 (55)	魂 (55)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	牛昆切	苦本切
Baxter	ngwon	khwonX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋuən/	/kʰuənX/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋuon/	/kʰuonX/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋuən/	/kʰuənX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋwən/	/kʰwənX/
Li Rong	/ŋuən/	/kʰuənX/
Wang Li	/ŋuən/	/kʰuənX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋuən/	/kʰuənX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wén	kǔn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ngan4	fan2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kʰˤunʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋɡuːn/, /*kʰuːnʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	梱
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	kǔn
Middle Chinese	‹ khwonX ›
Old Chinese	/*kʰˁunʔ/
English	(l. for 稇 khwonX "bind (v.)" in Mòzǐ)
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	梱	梱
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	7544	7551
Phonetic component	困	困
Rime group	文	文
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	㑮	閫
Old Chinese	/*ŋɡuːn/	/*kʰuːnʔ/

Definitions

梱

1. (Classical) arrow; arrow shaft
2. (Classical) picking implement
3. (Classical) threshold; doorsill; doorstep

Synonyms

• (threshold):

• 戶填／户填 (Hokkien)
• 戶限／户限 (hùxiàn) (literary)
• 戺 (shì) (Classical Chinese)
• 柣 (zhì) (Classical Chinese)
• 榍 (xiè) (Classical Chinese)
• 檻／槛 (kǎn)
• 轔／辚 (lín) (Classical Chinese)
• 門地伏／门地伏 (mon³ i⁵ fuuk⁴) (Taishanese)
• 門墊／门垫 (muòng-dâing) (Eastern Min)
• 門岸／门岸 (mn̂g-hōaⁿ) (Xiamen Hokkien)
• 門檻／门槛 (ménkǎn)
• 門限／门限 (ménxiàn)
• 門階／门阶 (ménjiē)
• 閫／阃 (kǔn) (literary)
• 閾／阈 (yù) (literary)
• 限 (xiàn) (literary, or in compounds)
• 面填 (bīn-tǔiⁿ) (Quanzhou Hokkien)

 

Compounds

• 梱格
• 梐梱

 

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01939

Japanese

Kanji

梱

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: こん (kon)
• Kan-on: こん (kon)
• Kun: しきみ (shikimi, 梱); こり (kori, 梱); こうり (kōri, 梱); こうる (kōru, 梱る)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
梱
こり Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Kanji in this term
梱
こうり Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 梱 – see the following entry.

【行李こうり】 [counter] [from 1867] used to count items of luggage, cargo, or freight: box, bundle, item, bale, package [noun] [from 1612] a wicker trunk used as luggage, with a lid that slides down over the top, generally made of bamboo, willow, or wisteria [noun] [from 892] a messenger, an envoy [noun] [from 706] luggage, baggage (what one takes on a trip to contain one's possessions) [noun] [from early 1100s] a trip, a voyage (by extension from the luggage sense) [noun] [from 1939] (historical) in the former Japanese army, the unit tasked with transporting materiel and supplies: military logistics 【行李こり】 [counter] [from late 1870s] used to count items of luggage, cargo, or freight: box, bundle, item, bale, package [noun] [from 1523] a bundle of one or more pieces of luggage secured with rope or cord [noun] [from 1603] a wicker trunk used as luggage, with a lid that slides down over the top, generally made of bamboo, willow, or wisteria

(This term, 梱, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

梱: Hán Nôm readings: khổn

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