xúnxùn

tame

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
马 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

horse

川 sound component

  Sound component

chuān

  

stream

Evolution

驯 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
驯 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
驯 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

xún

tame, docile, obedient

() 

xùn

to attain gradually; to tame; Taiwan pr. [xún]

Most common words with 驯
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to tame

驯服

to tame

驯鹿

reindeer

驯化

to tame

驯养

to domesticate

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.8992% of movies

2614th most common character in movies

2820th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Traditional

Unicode

U+9A6F


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