jùn
excellent horse
Phonosemantic compound. 馬 represents the meaning and 夋 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ts]ur-s | tswinH | jùn | fine horse |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3273rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+99FF |
Shuowen | “駿,馬之良材者。从馬,夋聲。” |
Sources
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