xūn

instrument

Evolution

壎 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
壎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

 

xūn

instrument; ancient porcelain wind-instrument

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʰo[n]

xjwon

xūn

ocarina


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+58CE

Shuowen

“壎,樂器也。以土為之,六孔。从土,熏聲。”


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