鯤

See also: 鲲
鯤 U+9BE4, 鯤
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9BE4
← 鯣
[U+9BE3] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 鯥 →
[U+9BE5]

Translingual

Han character

鯤 (radical 195, 魚+8, 19 strokes, cangjie input 弓火日心心 (NFAPP), four-corner 26311, composition ⿰魚昆)

  1. (fish) fry
  2. enormous legendary fish

See also

References
  • KangXi: page 1473, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46247
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2005, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4696, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9BE4

Chinese
trad. 鯤
simp. 鲲

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (昆) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
昆 *kuːn
琨 *kuːn
鯤 *kuːn
菎 *kuːn
崐 *kuːn
蜫 *kuːn
惃 *kuːn, *kuːnʔ
錕 *kuːn, *kuːnʔ
猑 *kuːn
騉 *kuːn
緄 *kuːnʔ
輥 *kuːnʔ
棍 *kuːns, *ɡuːnʔ
餛 *ɡuːn
混 *ɡuːnʔ
焜 *ɡuːnʔ
倱 *ɡuːnʔ
掍 *ɡuːnʔ
箟 *kʰrun

Pronunciation
Rime
Character 鯤
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 魂 (55)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古渾切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kuən/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kuon/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kuən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kwən/
Li
Rong		 /kuən/
Wang
Li		 /kuən/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kuən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 gūn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 鯤
Reading # 1/1
No. 7521
Phonetic
component		 昆
Rime
group		 文
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 昆
Old
Chinese		 /*kuːn/

Definitions

鯤

  1. fish roe; fry; spawn
  2. the kun, a sea monster that transforms into a roc (鵬／鹏 (péng))

Compounds
  • 鵬鯤／鹏鲲

References

Japanese

Kanji
鯤

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. large mythical fish
  2. roe

Readings
  • Go-on: こん (kon)
  • Kan-on: こん (kon)

Etymology
Kanji in this term
鯤
こん
Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 鯤 (MC kuən).

Pronunciation

Noun

鯤 (hiragana こん, rōmaji kon)

  1. (Chinese mythology) a mythological giant fish that is several thousand 里 (ri, “leagues”) long and that lives in the northern seas

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  • 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. (곤이 곤, gon-i-): roe; very young fish
  2. (곤어 곤, gon-eo-): mythical fish of an unaccountable length
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