冠

冠 (radical 14, 冖+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月一山戈 (BMUI), four-corner 3721₄, composition ⿱冖㝴)

• KangXi: page 130, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1580
• Dae Jaweon: page 292, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 303, character 18
• Unihan data for U+51A0

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kŋoːn, *kŋoːns) : semantic 冖 (“hat”) + phonetic 元 (OC *ŋon, “head”) + semantic 寸 (“hand”) – a hand putting a hat on the head. Also ideogrammic (會意) .

Earlier forms are phono-semantic (形聲, OC *kŋoːn, *kŋoːns) : semantic 冃 (“hat”) + phonetic 元 (OC *ŋon).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(g/k)wa-n (“to put on; to wear; to clothe”). Cognate with Tibetan བགོ (bgo, “to put on; to wear; clothing”), གོས (gos, “clothes; garments; dress”), གོན (gon), གྱོན (gyon, “to put on; to wear”), སྐོན (skon, “to dress; to clothe”).

冠

1. hat; cap

   皇冠  ―  huángguān  ―  crown

2. top part; cap; top
3. hat-shaped thing

   花冠  ―  huāguān  ―  wreath; crown

   雞冠 / 鸡冠  ―  jīguān  ―  cockscomb

4. cock's crest; comb

冠

1. ^† to put on a hat; to wear a hat
2. (historical) ceremony marking a male's coming of age at 20
3. ^† (of a male) to reach adulthood
4. ^† to rank first; to excel; to surpass
5. ^† to cover; to put on top of
6. to precede (e.g. with a title); to attach; to put on
7. ^† superior; excellent; outstanding

   冠軍 / 冠军  ―  guànjūn  ―  champion

8. ^† first place
9. champion; winner; victor
10. (linguistics) Short for 冠詞／冠词 (guàncí, “article”).
11. A surname​.

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. crown
2. best, peerless

• Go-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)^{←くわん (kwan, historical)}
• Kan-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)^{←くわん (kwan, historical)}
• Kun: かんむり (kanmuri, 冠, Jōyō)
• Nanori: かもり (kamori); まさる (masaru)

• 冠 (かん)詞 (し) (kanshi, “article”)

• 瓜 (か)田 (でん)に履 (くつ)を納 (い)れず、李 (り)下 (か)に冠 (かんむり)を正 (ただ)さず (kaden ni kutsu o irezu, rika ni kanmuri o tadasazu)

/kaɡapuri/ → /kaɡafuri/

From Old Japanese.

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [ka̠ɡa̠ɸɯ̟ᵝɾʲi]

冠 (hiragana かがふり, rōmaji kagafuri)

1. (archaic, possibly obsolete) head covering; headdress, crown
2. (by extension, archaic) order, rank

• 位 (い)階 (かい) (ikai, “court rank”)

Likely a shift from kagafuri above, ancient kagapuri. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• 被り, 頭

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) かぶり​ [kàbúríꜜ] (Odaka – [3])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [ka̠bɯ̟ᵝɾʲi]

冠 (hiragana かぶり, rōmaji kaburi)

1. headdress, crown
2. (theater) large attendance, full house
3. (archaic) order, rank

• (full house): 大 (おお)入 (い)り (ōiri)

A shift from kaburi above. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) かむり [kàmúrí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [ka̠mɯ̟ᵝɾʲi]

冠 (hiragana かむり, rōmaji kamuri)

1. headdress, crown
2. distance from the tunnel's roof to the surface directly above it
3. (poetry) first (traditionally, five) morae of a haiku, etc.; specifically, the first verse or line of a poem

A shift from kagafuri above, ancient kagapuri.[1]

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [ko̞ːbɯ̟ᵝɾʲi]

冠 (hiragana こうぶり, rōmaji kōburi, historical hiragana かうぶり)

1. headdress, crown
2. order, rank
3. Synonym of 年爵 (“an annual salary in the Heian period”)

• 初 (うい)冠 (こうぶり) (uikōburi, “crowning a boy for the first time at a coming-of-age ceremony​”)

The modern spelling. A shift from kōburi above, historical kauburi.[1] Also encountered is kanburi.

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) かんむり [kàńmúrí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • (Tokyo) かんむ​り [kàńmúꜜrì] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [kã̠mːɯ̟ᵝɾʲi]}

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [kã̠mbɯ̟ᵝɾʲi]

冠 (hiragana かんむり, rōmaji kanmuri, alternative reading かんぶり, rōmaji kanburi)

1. a crown (royal headdress)
   • 1999 November 18, “冠かんむりを戴いただく蒼あおき翼つばさ [Crowned Blue Wings]”, in Vol.6, Konami:

     頭 (あたま)の毛 (け)が冠 (かんむり)のように見 (み)える、青 (あお)白 (じろ)く燃 (も)えるトリ。

     Atama no ke ga kanmuri no yō ni mieru, aojiroku moeru tori.

     A bluish fiery bird whose feathers on its head resemble a crown.

2. a type of traditional cap
3. name; title; named sponsorship of a program, event, team, etc.​
4. the top radical of a kanji, such as 冖 as in 冠 itself

冠 (hiragana かんむり, rōmaji Kanmuri)

1. A female given name
2. A surname​.

Clipping of 鶏 (と)冠 (さか) (tosaka). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• (Irregular reading)
  • IPA^(key): [sa̠ka̠]

冠 (hiragana さか, rōmaji saka)

1. comb, crest (of a bird, particularly a chicken or pheasant); cockscomb

From Middle Chinese 冠 (MC kuɑn, kuɑn^H).

• On’yomi
  • (Tokyo) か​ん [káꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [kã̠ɴ]

冠 (hiragana かん, rōmaji kan, historical hiragana くわん)

1. headpiece, crown

• 冠 (かん)たる (kantaru, “best, unrivalled”)

冠 • (gwan)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 관 (revised: gwan, McCune–Reischauer: kwan)
  • Name (hangeul): 갓 관

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冠 (quan, quán)

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