券

券 (Kangxi radical 18, 刀+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 火手尸竹 (FQSH), four-corner 9022₇, composition ⿱龹刀(GHTJ) or ⿱𠔉刀(KV))

• 𫪤, 㓬

• 拳 卷/巻 弮 眷 觠

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 139, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1966
• Dae Jaweon: page 316, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 332, character 11
• Unihan data for U+5238

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʰons) : phonetic 𠔉 () + semantic 刀 (“knife”) – contract. Ancient contracts were cut in half.

券

1. (historical) title deed; deed of trust; bond; contract
2. ticket; pass; coupon; voucher; certificate

   入場券／入场券  ―  rùchǎngquàn  ―  admission ticket

3. ^† (figurative) guarantee; surety; certainty
4. ^† to agree; to tally with
5. ^† to copy; to trace
6. ^† to bore; to drill

券

1. (architecture) arch (on bridges, doors, windows)

• 拱券 (gǒngxuàn)

券

1. ^† Alternative form of 倦 (juàn, “tired; weary”)

• “券”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “券”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 270.

Shinjitai	券
Kyūjitai [1]	券󠄁 券+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	券󠄃 券+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. ticket

• Go-on: こん (kon)
• Kan-on: けん (ken, Jōyō)^{←くゑん (kwen, historical)}

/kwen/ → /ken/

From Middle Chinese 券 (MC khjwonH, “ticket”).

• (Tokyo) けん [kéꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [kẽ̞ɴ]

券(けん) • (ken) ^{←くゑん (kwen)?}

1. ticket, certificate
2. bond, coupon

券(けん) • (-ken) ^{←くゑん (-kwen)?}

1. ticket, certificate

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [kwʌ̹n]
• Phonetic hangul: [권]

 

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

券

Wikisource

券 (eumhun 엄쪽 권 (eomjjok gwon))

1. hanja form^? of 권 (“certificate, ticket”)
2. hanja form^? of 권 (“title deeds”)

• 旅券 (여권, yeogweon)

券: Hán Nôm readings: khoán

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