冠 — Chinese character
冠
guān
cap, crown, headgear
- Pinyin
- guān
- Radical
- 14 ⼍ (Cover)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 冖 元 寸
- Formation
- ideographic — A man 元 puts on a cap 冖 with his hand 寸
- Japanese
- 冠 as a kanji
Common words with 冠
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 冠军 (冠軍) | guàn jūn | champion |
| 夺冠 (奪冠) | duó guàn | to seize the crown; fig. to win a championship |
| 皇冠 | huáng guān | crown (headgear) |
| 王冠 | wáng guān | crown |
| 冠以 | guàn yǐ | to label; to call |
| 冠状病毒 (冠狀病毒) | guān zhuàng bìng dú | coronavirus |
| 新冠 | xīn guān | novel coronavirus (abbr. for 新型冠状病毒 (xīn xíng guān zhuàng bìng dú)) (esp. SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19) |
| 冠军赛 (冠軍賽) | guàn jūn sài | championship |
| 花冠 | huā guān | corolla |
| 冠名 | guàn míng | to name (a sports team, a competition etc) |
| 桂冠 | guì guān | laurel (as a symbol of victory or merit) |
| 衣冠 | yī guān | hat and clothes; attire |
English words written with 冠
冠 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 3 · Mencius 7 · Zhuangzi 14
- Analects 10.6
- Analects 11.25
- Analects 20.2
- Mencius 2A.9
- Mencius 3B.2
- Mencius 4B.29
- Mencius 5B.1
- Mencius 5B.7
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.