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Translingual

Han character

(radical 60 +9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹人竹十山 (HOHJU), four-corner 22264, composition)

  1. obey, comply with, follow

References

  • KangXi: page 369, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10187
  • Dae Jaweon: page 696, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 835, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+5FAA

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*l'uːnʔ, *ɦljunʔ
*l'uːnʔ, *l'uːns
*ljun
*ljun, *ɦljunʔ, *ɦljuns
*ljun, *l̥ʰun, *ɦljunʔ
*l̥ʰun
*l'uːd
*l'uːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ljun) : semantic  (movement) + phonetic  (OC *l'uːnʔ, *ɦljunʔ) – to follow (movement).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (17)
Final () (47)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ziuɪn/
Pan
Wuyun
/zʷin/
Shao
Rongfen
/zjuen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/zwin/
Li
Rong
/ziuĕn/
Wang
Li
/zĭuĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/zi̯uĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xún
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xún
Middle
Chinese
‹ zwin ›
Old
Chinese
/*sə.lu[n]/
English follow

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 2626
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ljun/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. sequential

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(sun) (hangeul , revised sun, McCune-Reischauer sun, Yale swun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tuần)

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