管

管 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 竹十口口 (HJRR), four-corner 8877₇, composition ⿱𥫗官)

• 𪴌, 𤪔, 䌣, 䲘(鳤), 𤻥

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 889, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26162
• Dae Jaweon: page 1316, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2986, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7BA1

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *koːnʔ): semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 官 (OC *koːn).

管

1. (music) a cylindrical double-reed woodwind instrument made of bamboo or wood
2. (music, by extension) any wind instrument
3. (by extension) slender tubular hollow object; pipe; tube; duct; canal; valve; fistula

   吸管  ―  xīguǎn  ―  straw

4. (literary) calligraphy brush; inkbrush
5. Classifier for tube-shaped objects.
6. to administer; to manage; to control; to be in charge

   管理  ―  guǎnlǐ  ―  to manage

7. to subject someone to discipline; to discipline
8. to concern oneself with; to interfere with

   • 你管他作甚！ [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: Various editors. c. 13th century. A Collection of Conversations of Master Zhu (《朱子語類》)

     Nǐ guǎn tā zuòshèn! [Pinyin]

     Why mind them at all!

9. to be responsible for the provision of; to provide; to supply
10. to assure; to guarantee; to ensure; to keep
11. despite; regardless of; irrespective of
12. (colloquial) used in the pattern 管……叫…… (“to call (someone/something the name of)”), where 管 is followed by the entity that is being called a name

    臺灣人管花生也叫土豆。 [MSC, trad.]
    台湾人管花生也叫土豆。 [MSC, simp.]

    Táiwānrén guǎn huāshēng yě jiào tǔdòu. [Pinyin]

    Taiwanese people also call peanuts 土豆.

13. (dialectal, colloquial) indicates the object of an action: to
14. (Sichuanese) to be worth
15. (Zhangzhou Hokkien) measuring tool of half a sheng (升 (shēng))
16. a surname

    管寧／管宁  ―  Guǎn Níng  ―  Guan Ning

• (writing brush):

• (to concern oneself with):

• (to assure):

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

管

1. (Hokkien, Teochew) tube; pipe; short cylinder

   火管 [Hokkien]  ―  hé-kóng [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  blowpipe (for cooking)

2. (Xiamen, Quanzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) Classifier for tube; pipe.

   一管水 [Hokkien]  ―  chi̍t kóng chúi [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  a tube of water

3. (Teochew) ladle

管

1. (Hokkien) used in 頷管／颔管, alternative form of 頷頸 / 颔颈

• “管”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[3], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. pipe
2. wind instrument
3. administer
4. brush; handle of a brush

• Go-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)^{←くわん (kwan, historical)}
• Kan-on: かん (kan, Jōyō)^{←くわん (kwan, historical)}
• Kun: くだ (kuda, 管, Jōyō)、ふえ (fue, 管)、つかさどる (tsukasadoru, 管る)
• Nanori: うち (uchi)、すが (suga)、すげ (suge)^[1]

/kwan/ → /kan/

From Middle Chinese 管 (kuɑn^X, “pipe, tube”).^[2]

The pipe sense is traced back to the writings of Zhuangzi, already an influential text in Japan in the 700s.^[2]

The brush handle sense is traced back to the text of the 詩経 (Shikyō, “Classic of Poetry”), an Old Chinese poetry anthology written from the 11th to 7th centuries BCE and already influencing Japanese writing since the mid-700s.^[2]

The wind instrument sense is sourced from the 延喜式 (Engishiki) of 927.^[3]

• (Tokyo) かん [káꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[4]
• IPA^(key): [kã̠ɴ]

管(かん) • (kan) ^{←くわん (kwan)?}

1. [from 700s] pipe
2. [from 700s] the shaft or handle of a calligraphy brush

   Synonyms: 筆管 (hikkan), 筆柄 (fudezuka)

3. [from 927] a wind instrument

From Old Japanese 管 (kuda, “pipe, tube”).^[3][4][5]

First attested in the Nihon Shoki of 720 and the Man'yōgana of 759 with the ideogrammatic spelling of 小角 (literally “small horn”).^[2][6]

• (Tokyo) くだ [kúꜜdà] (Atamadaka – [1])^[4]
• IPA^(key): [kɯ̟da̠]

管(くだ) • (kuda) 

1. [from 1254] a pipe or tube, such as that made of bamboo, wood, metal, or rubber
2. [from late 800s, early 900s] a pirn or bobbin that holds the thread within a weaving shuttle (from the way the earliest shuttles were made from bamboo tubes)
3. [from 1603] a spool or bobbin onto which thread is wound on a spinning wheel
4. [from 720] (military) short for 管の笛 (kuda no fue): a kind of small pipe or flute used for signalling during a battle, similar to a fife

   Synonym: 管笛 (kudabue)

5. [from late 1600s] an agricultural tool used to thresh cut rice stalks
6. [from late 1700s] short for 管狐 (kudagitsune): a kind of mythical fox roughly the size of a weasel, that would live in bamboo stalks and make prophecies of the future

• “管”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[4] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

管 (eumhun 피리 관 (piri gwan))

1. hanja form^? of 관 (“pipe, tube”)
2. hanja form^? of 관 (“piri, a woodwind instrument”)

管: Hán Nôm readings: quản

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