guan

n. large bird of the curassow family resembling a turkey that lives in trees and eats fruits (native to Central and South America)

For the group of cracid birds, see Guan (bird) Guan may refer to either of two Chinese family names (both rendered in Cantonese as Kwan, or also in English as Quan or Quon). The two names are as follows: Guan Prominent people named Guān include:Guan Yu (關羽, 160 – 219 CE), generalGuan Ping (關平,? – 219), Guan Yu's sonGuan Hanqing (關漢卿, c. 1241 – 1320), playwrightNancy Kwan (關家蒨, b. 1939), Chinese-American actressJade Kwan (關心妍, b. 1979), Cantopop singerMichelle Kwan (關穎珊, b. 1980), American competitive figure skater
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Noun
1. any of several large turkey-like game birds of the family Cracidae; native to jungles of tropical America; resembling the curassows and valued as food
(hypernym) gallinaceous bird, gallinacean
(hyponym) piping guan
(member-holonym) Cracidae, family Cracidae

(n.)
Any one of many species of large gallinaceous birds of Central and South America, belonging to Penelope, Pipile, Ortalis, and allied genera. Several of the species are often domesticated.
  

Pinyin: guan
Wade-Giles: kuan
Zhuyin:
Hanzi: