chún
honest
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 享 represents the sound. Simplified form of 湻.
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 淳
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
pure | ||
simple and honest | ||
Chun'an county in Hangzhou 杭州[Hángzhōu], Zhejiang | ||
Chun'an county in Hangzhou 杭州[Hángzhōu], Zhejiang | ||
Gaochun county in Nanjing 南京, Jiangsu |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[d]u[r] | dzywin | chún | a pair |
*[d]u[r] | dzywin | chún | simple, unadorned |
*[d]u[r] | dzywin | chún | ample |
*tur | tsywin | zhūn | moisten |
*turʔ | tsywinX | zhǔn | measure of breadth (of cloth) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.4004% of movies
3204th most common character in movies
3147th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+6DF3 |
Shuowen | “，渌也。从水，聲。” |
Sources
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