Chou Collection, Lower Volume
Radical: Woman (nǚ)
奸
Kangxi stroke count: 6
Page 255, Entry 04
Pronounced gan
Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen): To offend.
Zengyun (Zengyun): To violate moral propriety.
Yupian (Yupian): Disorder.
Zuo Zhuan (Zuozhuan), Year 13 of Duke Cheng: To disrupt our good relations.
Book of Han (Hanshu), Treatise on Rivers and Canals: To ensure that both spirits and humans occupy their proper places and do not interfere with one another.
Pronounced jian
Private; false. Also used interchangeably with the character pronounced gan.
Zhuangzi, Chapter on the Operations of Heaven: To deceive seventy-two rulers.
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals of Qi: To deceitfully occupy the position of the Zhou dynasty through fishing.
Pronounced jian
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Treatise on Tortoise and Milfoil Divination: If the cold air is not harmonious, perverse influences interfere with one another. When the same year has differing seasonal manifestations, it is because of the timing.