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guān
  1. 1.hat
  2. 2.crown
  3. 3.crest
  4. 4.cap
guàn
  1. 1.to put on a hat
  2. 2.to be first
  3. 3.to dub
Guàn
  1. 1.surname Guan

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.hat; cap
  2. 2.hat-shaped thing
  3. 3.to put on a hat; to wear a hat
  4. 4.ceremony marking a male's coming of age at 20
  5. 5.to reach adulthood
  6. 6.to rank first; to excel; to surpass
  7. 7.to cover
  8. 8.to precede (e.g. with a title); to attach; to put on
  9. 9.champion; winner; victor
  10. 10.a surname

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kŋoːn, *kŋoːns) and ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): semantic 冖 (“hat”) + phonetic 元 (OC *ŋon, “head”) + semantic 寸 (“hand”) – a hand putting a hat on the head. Earlier forms are phono-semantic (形聲 /形声, OC *kŋoːn, *kŋoːns): semantic 冃 (“hat”) + phonetic 元 (OC *ŋon). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(g/k)wa-n (“to put on; to wear; to clothe”). Cognate with Tibetan བགོ (bgo, “to put on; to wear; clothing”), གོས (gos, “clothes; garments; dress”), གོན (gon), གྱོན (gyon, “to put on; to wear”), སྐོན (skon, “to dress; to clothe”). Pronunciation 2 is the exopassive derivation of pronunciation 1, literally "(make someone to) be capped" (Schuessler, 2007).

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