guǎn
pipe
Phonosemantic compound. ⺮ represents the meaning and 官 represents the sound. Originally a musical tube made of bamboo. The meaning "to manage" is a phonetic loan.
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Wu (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
Modernguǎn
pipe, tube, duct; woodwind music; to take care (of); to control; to manage; to be in charge of; to look after; to run; to care about; tube; pipe; woodwind; classifier for tube-shaped objects; particle similar to 把[bǎ] in 管...叫 constructions; writing brush; (coll.) to; towards
Guǎn
surname Guan
guǎn
variant of 管[guǎn]
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to supervise | ||
to control | ||
regardless of | ||
despite | ||
in charge |
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ˤo[n]ʔ | kwanX | guǎn | tube; flute |
*kʷˤa[n]ʔ | kwanX | guǎn | exhausted, helpless |
*kʷˤa[n]ʔ | kwanX | guǎn | helpless |
HSK level 3
Appears in 93.7049% of movies
270th most common character in movies
252nd most common character in books
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+7BA1 |
Shuowen | “管，如箎，六孔，十二月之音，物開地牙，故謂之管。从竹，官聲。琯，古者玉琯以玉。舜之時，西王母來獻其白琯。前零陵文學姓奚，於伶道舜祠下得笙玉琯。夫以玉作音，故神人以和，鳳皇來儀也。从玉，官聲。” |
