眷

眷 U+7737, 眷 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7737 ← 眶 [U+7736] CJK Unified Ideographs 眸 → [U+7738]

Translingual

Han character

眷 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 火手月山 (FQBU), four-corner 9060₃, composition ⿱龹目(GHT) or ⿱𠔉目(JKV))

Derived characters

• 𡡀, 慻, 𨖩, 膡, 𰦀, 𮈿, 䒅, 𧷬, 𠢚, 𢨄, 𲁏, 𩴖, 𡈕

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 807, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23311
• Dae Jaweon: page 1222, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2487, character 13
• Unihan data for U+7737

Chinese

simp. and trad.		眷
alternative forms		睠

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 眷
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
潫	*qroːn, *qon, *qron
豢	*ɡroːns
勬	*kron, *krons
韏	*kronʔ, *ɡrons, *kʰons
眷	*krons
桊	*krons
絭	*krons, *kʰrons, *kons, *kʰons, *koɡ
觠	*krons, *ɡron
飬	*krons
弮	*kʰron, *krons
拳	*ɡron
卷	*ɡron, *kronʔ, *krons, *ɡonʔ
齤	*ɡron
券	*kʰons

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *krons) : phonetic 龹 () + semantic 目 (“eye”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): juàn (juan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gyun³
• Eastern Min (BUC): guóng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): koàn

  (Teochew, Peng'im): guêng³

• Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ⁵cioe / ⁵ciuon

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: juàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jyuàn
    • Wade–Giles: chüan⁴
    • Yale: jywàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiuann
    • Palladius: цзюань (czjuanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gyun³
    • Yale: gyun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gyn³
    • Guangdong Romanization: gün³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kyːn³³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: guóng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuɔŋ²¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koàn
    • Tâi-lô: kuàn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: koaxn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kuan²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kuan⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kuan²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kuan¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kuan²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: guêng³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kuèng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kueŋ²¹³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai, Suzhou)
    • Wugniu: ⁵cioe
    • MiniDict: cioe^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²jyoe
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡ɕyø³⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /t͡ɕyø⁵²³/
  • (Northern: Hangzhou)
    • Wugniu: ⁵ciuon
    • MiniDict: ciuon^去
    • Sinological IPA (Hangzhou): /t͡ɕyõ⁴⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: kjwenH

Rime
Character	眷
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	仙 (80)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	居倦切
Baxter	kjwenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠiuᴇnH/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷᵚiɛnH/
Shao Rongfen	/kiuænH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwianH/
Li Rong	/kjuɛnH/
Wang Li	/kĭwɛnH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ki̯wɛnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	juàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gyun3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ro[n]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*krons/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	眷
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	juàn
Middle Chinese	‹ kjwenH ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ro[n]-s/
English	look on with affection
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	眷
Reading #	1/1
No.	7158
Phonetic component	
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	眷
Old Chinese	/*krons/

Definitions

眷

1. (obsolete) to look back

   • 乃眷西顧，此維與宅。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     乃眷西顾，此维与宅。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Nǎi juàn xī gù, cǐ wéi yǔ zhái. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (literary) to take interest in; to care for

   眷顧／眷顾  ―  juàngù  ―  to be concerned about

   眷戀／眷恋  ―  juànliàn  ―  to think fondly of

3. relatives

   親眷／亲眷  ―  qīnjuàn  ―  relatives

   眷屬／眷属  ―  juànshǔ  ―  relatives

   • 武職人員也是三年一換。官兵都不准攜眷來臺，除少數例外。 [Taiwanese Mandarin, trad.]
     武职人员也是三年一换。官兵都不准携眷来台，除少数例外。 [Taiwanese Mandarin, simp.]

     From: February 2018, 臺灣歷史地圖 增訂版, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 48, column 1

     Wǔzhí rényuán yěshì sān nián yī huàn. Guānbīng dōu bùzhǔn xī juàn lái Tái, chú shǎoshù lìwài. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

4. a surname

Compounds

• 一家眷屬 / 一家眷属
• 三親六眷 / 三亲六眷
• 三親四眷 / 三亲四眷
• 乃眷
• 九眷
• 交門親眷 / 交门亲眷
• 僑眷 / 侨眷 (qiáojuàn)
• 內眷 / 内眷 (nèijuàn)
• 天眷
• 女眷
• 姻眷
• 存眷
• 宅眷
• 宸眷
• 家眷 (jiājuàn)
• 寶眷 / 宝眷 (bǎojuàn)
• 少親失眷 / 少亲失眷
• 忝眷
• 恩眷
• 挈眷
• 攜家帶眷 / 携家带眷
• 攜眷 / 携眷
• 敝眷
• 眷佑 (juànyòu)
• 眷保
• 眷區 / 眷区 (juànqū)
• 眷口
• 眷姻
• 眷屬 / 眷属 (juànshǔ)
• 眷念 (juànniàn)
• 眷念無斁 / 眷念无𭣧
• 眷愛 / 眷爱 (juàn'ài)
• 眷懷 / 眷怀 (juànhuái)
• 眷戀 / 眷恋 (juànliàn)
• 眷族
• 眷晚生
• 眷村 (juàncūn)
• 眷注 (juànzhù)
• 眷生
• 眷眷
• 眷眷之心
• 眷舍
• 眷言
• 眷遇
• 眷顧 / 眷顾 (juàngù)
• 眷齒 / 眷齿
• 神仙眷屬 / 神仙眷属
• 美眷
• 美眷姻
• 親眷 / 亲眷 (qīnjuàn)
• 軍眷 / 军眷 (jūnjuàn)

 

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02771

Japanese

Kanji

眷

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): けん (ken)
• Kun: かえりみる (kaerimiru)

Korean

Hanja

眷 (eum 권 (gwon))

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Vietnamese

Han character

眷: Hán Nôm readings: quyến, quấn, cuốn, quẹn

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