Zi:关
关 [guān] (F關) shut/close, 关门 close a door; 关口 pass/barrier, juncture; 关系 connection; 关于 concerning; (HDZ:) … [wān] (F關) [wǎn] (F關) [xiào] 关: 笑, (HDC:) 談关/笑
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The simple-form character 关 guān (6 strokes) is said to be an old variant of 笑 (关⿱八天 xiào), or a variant of 𠔉 (juàn), re-used as an abbrev. of the full-form character 關 (19 strokes), formerly abbrev. 関.
The full-form character 關 guān ‘shut’ (with 𢇇), formerly also wr. 𨶚 (with 𢇅), was abbrev. 関, and later simply 关.
Note: 关 ← 関 ← 關(𨶚); cf. 关/關 guān ‘shut’, 𠔉 juàn ‘roll/ball up’.
Compare: 关/關(𨶚) guān ‘shut’ ← MC /kuan/; 𠔉(𨤑𢍏) juàn ‘roll/ball up’ ← MC /kjuans/ (SBGY).
The Shuōwén Seal form of 關(𨶚) guān ‘shut (a door)’ combines 门/門 (mén) ‘double-leaf doors’, and 𢇇(𢇅) guān ‘ply the shuttle in the loom’ (phonosemantic): apply the wooden bolt (through the lock of the door, to bolt/lock the door), as plying the shuttle (carrying weft through warp).
Compare: 棺 guān ‘coffin’, in SW glossed with a pun on 關; 棺/關 guān ← MC /kuan/ (SBGY).
Compare: 栓, 闩/閂 shuān ‘door bolt’, formerly also wr. 𣠸, 𢩠, 𣟴.
Compare: 弯/彎 wān ‘draw a bow’, formerly also wr. 關.
Compare: 贯/貫 guàn ‘string/pierce/penetrate’, formerly wr. 毌; 穿 chuān/chuàn ‘penetrate/string’.
Note: As a component the form 关 stands for various old components.
Compare: 联/聯(䏈) lián ‘link’; 联系 liánxì; 关系 guānxi.
Compare: 送(䢠) sòng ‘send’; 朕(𦩎𣍹) zhèn ‘crack/seam’.
HDZ: 关 : (简体) 關; 关: 笑
►references: Wieger:92g; Karlgren:AD444; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:1.242.7,1.243.1; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:034.1.03; EDOC:0
►components: 丷天八
►Cantonese: gwaan\
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