公案

Chinese

		just; honorable; public just; honorable; public; common; fair; duke; mister	(legal) case; incident; record (legal) case; incident; record; file; table
simp. and trad. (公案)		公	案

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): gōng'àn

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄥㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gung¹ on³
Min Nan (POJ): kong-àn
Wu (Wiktionary): kon oe (T1)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: gōng'àn
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄥㄢˋ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gongann
  - Tongyong Pinyin: gong'àn
  - IPA ^(key): /kʊŋ⁵⁵ ˀän⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: gung¹ on³
  - Yale: gūng on
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gung¹ on³
  - Guangdong Romanization: gung¹ on³
  - IPA ^(key): /kʊŋ⁵⁵ ɔːn³³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kong-àn
  - Tâi-lô: kong-àn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kong'axn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² an²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kɔŋ³³ an⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² an²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ an¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ an²¹/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: kon oe (T1)
  - IPA ^(key): /kʊŋ⁵⁵ ø²¹/

Middle Chinese: /kuŋ ʔɑn^H/▼

Rime
Character	公	案
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	東 (1)	寒 (61)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	古紅切	烏旰切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuŋ/	/ʔɑn^H/
Pan Wuyun	/kuŋ/	/ʔɑn^H/
Shao Rongfen	/kuŋ/	/ʔɑn^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kəwŋ/	/ʔan^H/
Li Rong	/kuŋ/	/ʔɑn^H/
Wang Li	/kuŋ/	/ɑn^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/kuŋ/	/ʔɑn^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gōng	àn

Noun

公案

koan
(literary) court table (used by a judge)
(figuratively) complicated legal case
(figuratively) much discussed issue; sensational affair

Japanese

Kanji in this term
公	案
こう Grade: 2	あん Grade: 4
on’yomi

Noun

公案 (hiragana こうあん, rōmaji kōan)

koan

Etymology

公 (public) 案 (record). A public record serves as a metaphor for principles of reality beyond the private opinion of one person, and a teacher may test the student's ability to recognize and understand that principle.

Descendants

English: koan
French: koan
Hungarian: koan
Russian: коа́н (koán)

Korean

Hanja in this term
公	案

Noun

公案 • (gong-an) (hangeul 공안)

Hanja form^? of 공안 (“koan”).

Vietnamese

Hán tự in this term
公	案

Noun

公案

Hán tự form of công án (“koan”).

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