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循

循

Translingual

Han character

循 (radical 60 彳+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹人竹十山 (HOHJU), four-corner 22264, composition ⿰彳盾)

  1. obey, comply with, follow

References

  • KangXi: page 369, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10187
  • Dae Jaweon: page 696, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 835, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+5FAA

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 循

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (盾) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
盾 *l'uːnʔ, *ɦljunʔ
遁 *l'uːnʔ, *l'uːns
循 *ljun
揗 *ljun, *ɦljunʔ, *ɦljuns
楯 *ljun, *l̥ʰun, *ɦljunʔ
輴 *l̥ʰun
腯 *l'uːd
鍎 *l'uːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ljun) : semantic 彳 ‎(“movement”) + phonetic 盾 ‎(OC *l'uːnʔ, *ɦljunʔ) – to follow (movement).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 循
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 邪 (17)
Final (韻) 諄 (47)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 詳遵切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ziuɪn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /zʷin/
Shao
Rongfen		 /zjuen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /zwin/
Li
Rong		 /ziuĕn/
Wang
Li		 /zĭuĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /zi̯uĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xún
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 循
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xún
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ zwin ›
Old
Chinese		 /*sə.lu[n]/
English follow

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 循
Reading # 1/1
No. 2626
Phonetic
component		 盾
Rime
group		 文
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 旬
Old
Chinese		 /*ljun/

Definitions

循

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Japanese

Kanji

循

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. sequential

Readings

Korean

Hanja

循 • ‎(sun) (hangeul 순, revised sun, McCune-Reischauer sun, Yale swun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

循 (tuần)

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