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純

純

See also: 纯

Translingual

Han character

純 (radical 120 糸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 女火心山 (VFPU), four-corner 25917, composition ⿰糸屯)

  1. pure, clean, simple

References

  • KangXi: page 917, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27277
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1346, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3371, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+7D14

Chinese

trad. 純
simp. 纯

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 純
Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (屯) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
躉 *tuːnʔ
窀 *rduːn, *duːn, *tun
沌 *donʔ, *duːn, *duːnʔ
盹 *tuːnʔ, *tjuns
頓 *tuːns
扽 *tuːns
黗 *tʰuːn, *tʰuːnʔ
吨 *tʰuːnʔ
屯 *duːn, *tun
飩 *duːn
豘 *duːn
軘 *duːn
坉 *duːn
邨 *duːn, *stʰuːn
忳 *duːn
芚 *duːn
庉 *duːn, *duːnʔ
囤 *duːnʔ
迍 *tun
杶 *tʰun
瑃 *tʰun
椿 *tʰun
偆 *tʰunʔ, *tʰjunʔ
肫 *tjun
訰 *tjun, *tjuns
純 *tjunʔ, *djun
春 *tʰjun
蠢 *tʰjunʔ
踳 *tʰjunʔ
惷 *tʰjunʔ
蒓 *djun
賰 *hljunʔ
鬊 *hljuns

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 純
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂʰuən³⁵/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂʰuən²⁴/
Tianjin /ʈ͡ʂʰuən⁴⁵/
/t͡sʰuən⁴⁵/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂʰuẽ⁴²/
Qingdao /ʈ͡ʂʰuə̃⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰuən⁴²/
Xi'an /p͡fʰẽ²¹/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂʰuə̃²⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂʰuŋ⁵³/
/ʂuŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /p͡fʰə̃n⁵³/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂʰuŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /ɕyn²¹³/
Chengdu /suən³¹/
Guiyang /suen²¹/
Kunming /ʂuə̃¹/
Nanjing /ʂun²⁴/
Hefei /ʂuən⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰuəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /t͡sʰuŋ¹³/
/suŋ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡sʰũŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /zəŋ²³/
Suzhou /zən¹³/
Hangzhou /d͡zen²¹³/
Wenzhou /zoŋ³¹/
Hui Shexian /ɕyʌ̃⁴⁴/
Tunxi /ɕyan⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /ɕyn¹³/
Xiangtan /ɕyn¹²/
Gan Nanchang /sun⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /sun¹¹/
Taoyuan /sun¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /søn²¹/
Nanning /syn²¹/
Hong Kong /søn²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /sun³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /suŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /sœyŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /suŋ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /tun³¹/
Rime
Character 純 純
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 常 (25) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 諄 (47) 諄 (47)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 常倫切 之尹切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡ʑiuɪn/ /t͡ɕiuɪnX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡ʑʷin/ /t͡ɕʷinX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡ʑjuen/ /t͡ɕjuenX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡ʑwin/ /cwinX/
Li
Rong		 /ʑiuĕn/ /t͡ɕiuĕnX/
Wang
Li		 /ʑĭuĕn/ /t͡ɕĭuĕnX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʑi̯uĕn/ /t͡ɕi̯uĕnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 chún zhǔn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 純 純
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 chún chún
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzywin › ‹ dzywin ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[d]u[n]/ /*[d]u[n]/
English pure, unmixed silken

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 純 純
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 12570 12578
Phonetic
component		 屯 屯
Rime
group		 文 文
Rime
subdivision		 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 準 純
Old
Chinese		 /*tjunʔ/ /*djun/

Definitions

純

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

純

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Adjectival noun

純 ‎(-na inflection, hiragana じゅん, romaji jun)

  1. innocent

Inflection

Prefix

純 ‎(hiragana じゅん, romaji jun-)

  1. pure

Proper noun

Kanji in this term
純
あつし
Grade: 6

純 ‎(hiragana あつし, romaji Atsushi)

  1. A male given name
Kanji in this term
純
じゅん
Grade: 6
on'yomi

純 ‎(hiragana じゅん, romaji Jun)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

純 • ‎(sun, jun, jeon, don, chi) (hangeul 순, 준, 전, 돈, 치, revised sun, jun, jeon, don, chi, McCune-Reischauer sun, chun, chŏn, ton, ch'i, Yale swun, cwun, cen, ton, chi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

純 (thuần, chuẩn, đồn, truy, luồn, thuận, nguyên)

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