Chinese Character Wiki

巡

xún

patrol

To walk 辶 by the river 巛; 巛 also provides the pronunciation

Components
辶 meaning component

辶  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

巛 sound,meaning component

巛  Sound Meaning component

chuān

  

river

Evolution

巡 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
巡 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
巡 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
巡 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
巡 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

巡  

xún

patrol, go on circuit, cruise; to patrol; to make one's rounds; classifier for rounds of drinks

巡 (廵) 

xún

variant of 巡[xún]

Most common words with 巡
Freq.
Word
Meaning

巡逻

to patrol (police, army or navy)

巡

to patrol

巡回

to roam

巡警

police officer

巡演

to be on tour

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[sə.l]u[n]

zwin

xún

perambulate


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 16.2102% of movies

1533rd most common character in movies

1544th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+5DE1

Shuowen

“巡，延行皃。从辵，川聲。”


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