悍

悍 U+608D, 悍 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-608D ← 悌 [U+608C] CJK Unified Ideographs 悎 → [U+608E]

Translingual

Han character

悍 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 心日一十 (PAMJ), four-corner 9604₁, composition ⿰忄旱)

Derived characters

• 𫺥

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 387, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10643
• Dae Jaweon: page 719, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2304, character 2
• Unihan data for U+608D

Chinese

simp. and trad.		悍
alternative forms		猂

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
訐	*krads, *krads, *ked, *kad
肝	*kaːn
竿	*kaːn
干	*kaːn
奸	*kaːn
玕	*kaːn
汗	*kaːn, *ɡaːn, *ɡaːns
迀	*kaːn
忓	*kaːn, *ɡaːns
鳱	*kaːn
邗	*kaːn, *ɡaːn
秆	*kaːnʔ
矸	*kaːnʔ, *kaːns, *ɡaːns
仠	*kaːnʔ
皯	*kaːnʔ
衦	*kaːnʔ
簳	*kaːnʔ
擀	*kaːnʔ
旰	*kaːns
盰	*kaːns
幹	*kaːns
杆	*kaːns
骭	*kaːns, *ɡraːns
桿	*kaːnʔ
趕	*kaːnʔ
稈	*kaːnʔ
刊	*kʰaːn
靬	*kʰaːn, *kʰaːns, *kreːn, *kan
衎	*kʰaːnʔ, *kʰaːns
犴	*ŋaːn, *ŋaːns
豻	*ŋaːn, *ŋaːns, *ɦŋaːns, *ŋ̊ʰraːn
頇	*ŋaːns, *hŋaːn, *ŋaːd
岸	*ŋɡaːns
鼾	*qʰaːn, *ɢaːns
罕	*qʰaːnʔ, *qʰaːns
焊	*qʰaːnʔ, *ɡaːns
蔊	*qʰaːnʔ
虷	*ɡaːn
旱	*ɡaːnʔ
皔	*ɡaːnʔ
釬	*ɡaːns
扞	*ɡaːns
閈	*ɡaːns
馯	*ɡaːns, *kʰraːn
捍	*ɡaːns, *ɡraːnʔ
悍	*ɡaːns
銲	*ɡaːns
垾	*ɡaːns
駻	*ɡaːns
睅	*ɡʷranʔ
娨	*ɡraːns
飦	*kan
赶	*ɡan, *ɡʷad
軒	*qʰan
蓒	*qʰan
酐	*qʰaːŋʔ
澣	*ɡʷaːnʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hàn (han⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hon⁶ / hon⁵
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hān

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hàn
    • Wade–Giles: han⁴
    • Yale: hàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hann
    • Palladius: хань (xanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hon⁶ / hon⁵
    • Yale: hohn / hóhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hon⁶ / hon⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: hon⁶ / hon⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔːn²²/, /hɔːn¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hān
    • Tâi-lô: hān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: han
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /han²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /han⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: hanH

Rime
Character	悍
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	寒 (61)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	侯旰切
Baxter	hanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɑnH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦɑnH/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɑnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦanH/
Li Rong	/ɣɑnH/
Wang Li	/ɣɑnH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣɑnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hon6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡaːns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	悍
Reading #	1/1
No.	3626
Phonetic component	干
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	翰
Old Chinese	/*ɡaːns/

Definitions

悍

1. brave; bold
2. fierce; ferocious
3. vigorous; valiant

Compounds

• 凶悍 (xiōnghàn)
• 刁悍
• 剽悍 (piāohàn)
• 勇夫悍卒
• 勇悍 (yǒnghàn)
• 強悍 / 强悍 (qiánghàn)
• 悍妒
• 悍婦 / 悍妇 (hànfù)
• 悍室
• 悍將 / 悍将
• 悍戾
• 悍梗
• 悍然 (hànrán)
• 悍然不顧 / 悍然不顾
• 悍藥 / 悍药
• 悍賊 / 悍贼
• 慓悍 (piàohàn)
• 潑悍 / 泼悍
• 獷悍 / 犷悍
• 短小精悍 (duǎnxiǎo jīnghàn)
• 矮小精悍
• 精悍 (jīnghàn)
• 精悍短小
• 趫悍 / 𰷶悍
• 雕悍
• 驃悍 / 骠悍 (piàohàn)
• 驍悍 / 骁悍
• 鵰悍 / 雕悍
• 鷙悍 / 鸷悍 (zhìhàn)

 

References

• “悍”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

悍

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: がん (gan)
• Kan-on: かん (kan)
• Kun: おぞましい (ozomashī, 悍ましい)、あらい (arai, 悍い)、たけし (takeshi, 悍し)
• Nanori: たけし (takeshi)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
悍
かん Hyōgai
kan'on

From Middle Chinese 悍 (MC hanH).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kã̠ɴ]

Affix

悍(かん) • (kan) 

1. ferocious; fierce

Korean

Hanja

悍 • (han) (hangeul 한, revised han, McCune–Reischauer han, Yale han)

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Vietnamese

Han character

悍: Hán Nôm readings: hãn

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