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Translingual

Han character

(radical 149 +3, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜口中中中 (YRLLL), four-corner 02600, composition)

  1. teach, instruct
  2. exegesis

References

  • KangXi: page 1148, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35238
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1614, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3942, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+8A13

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kʰjon
*kʰjons
*kʰuːn
*sɢljun
*sɢljun
*sɢljun, *ɢljun
*kljuns, *kʷeːnʔ
*ɢljuns
*qʰuns

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (32)
Final () (59)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/hɨunH/
Pan
Wuyun
/hiunH/
Shao
Rongfen
/xiuənH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/hunH/
Li
Rong
/xiuənH/
Wang
Li
/xĭuənH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/xi̯uənH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xùn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xùn
Middle
Chinese
‹ xjunH ›
Old
Chinese
/*l̥u[n]-s/ (W dialect: *l̥- > x- )
English instruct

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. 1637
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qʰuns/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Kanji in this term
くん
Grade: 4
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana くん, romaji kun)

  1. kun'yomi

Proper noun

(hiragana さとし, romaji Satoshi)

  1. A male given name

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

(hun) (hangeul , revised hun, McCune-Reischauer hun, Yale hwun)

  1. (가르칠 훈, gareuchil-): teach, instruct
  2. (새길 훈, saegil-) interpret, translate, paraphrase, explicate, exegesis

Synonyms

Compounds

See also


Vietnamese

Han character

(huấn)

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