褌

See also: 裈

褌	U+890C, 褌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-890C

← 褋
[U+890B]

CJK Unified Ideographs

褍 →
[U+890D]

Translingual

Etymology

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

Characters in the same phonetic series (軍) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
揮	*qʰul
輝	*qʰul
翬	*qʰul
暉	*qʰul
煇	qʰul, ɡuːn, *ɡuːnʔ
楎	qʰul, ɡuːn
瀈	*qʰul
韗	qʰons, ɢuns
褌	*kuːn
鶤	kuːn, ɢuns
緷	kuːnʔ, ɡuːnʔ, *ɢuns
睴	kuːns, ɡuːnʔ
璭	*kuːns
瘒	*ŋɡuːn
顐	ŋɡuːn, ŋɡuːns, *ɡuːn
諢	*ŋɡuːns
餫	ɡuːn, ɢuns
渾	ɡuːn, ɡuːnʔ
琿	*ɡuːn
鼲	*ɡuːn
堚	*ɡuːn
鯶	*ɡuːnʔ
軍	*kun
皸	kun, kuns
齳	*ŋɡunʔ
喗	*ŋɡunʔ
葷	*qʰun
惲	*qunʔ
賱	*qunʔ
運	*ɢuns
暈	*ɢuns
鄆	*ɢuns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kuːn) : semantic 衤 (“clothes”) + phonetic 軍 (OC *kun).

Han character

褌 (radical 145, 衣+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中月十十 (LBJJ), four-corner 3725₆, composition ⿰衤軍)

trousers, pants, shorts, drawers

References

KangXi: page 1120, character 34

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34428

Dae Jaweon: page 1588, character 9

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3104, character 12

Unihan data for U+890C

Chinese

trad.		褌
simp.		裈

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): kūn (kun¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gwan¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: kūn
  - Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄣ
  - Wade–Giles: k'un¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuen
  - IPA ^(key): /kʰu̯ən⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: gwan¹
  - Yale: gwān
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gwan¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: guen¹
  - IPA ^(key): /kʷɐn⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: /kuən/▼

Rime
Character	褌
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

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*kuːn/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	褌
Reading #	1/1
No.	7311
Phonetic component	軍
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	昆
Old Chinese	/*kuːn/

Definitions

褌

(archaic) trousers; pants
fundoshi (traditional Japanese loincloth)

Synonyms

(trousers; pants): 褲／裤 (kù)
(fundoshi): 兜襠布／兜裆布 (dōudāngbù)

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B04527

Japanese

Kanji

褌

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

On (unclassified): こん (kon)
Kun: ふんどし (fundoshi, 褌)

Noun

褌 (hiragana ふんどし, rōmaji fundoshi)

loincloth
The traditional Japanese underwear for adult males, made from a length of cotton.
(sumo) A sumo wrestler's traditional apron.
人 (ひと)の褌 (ふんどし)で相 (す)撲 (もう)を取 (と)る
hito no fundoshi de sumō o toru
live on someone’s expense (literally “wrestle in someone’s fundoshi”)

Noun

褌 (hiragana みつ, rōmaji mitsu)

(sumo) A sumo wrestler's belt, a mawashi.

Derived terms

前褌 (まえみつ) (maemitsu, “front of the mawashi”)

Korean

Hanja

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

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