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淳
淳
Translingual
Han character
淳 (radical 85 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水卜口木 (EYRD), four-corner 30147)
- honest, simple, unsophisticated
- cyanogen
- ethane dinitrile
References
- KangXi: page 632, character 5
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17690
- Dae Jaweon: page 1035, character 1
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1658, character 1
- Unihan data for U+6DF3
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
淳 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (敦) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 弴 | *tjuː, *tuːn |
| 敦 | *tuːl, *doːn, *tuːn, *tuːns |
| 錞 | *duːlʔ, *duːls, *djun |
| 憝 | *duːls |
| 憞 | *duːls |
| 譈 | *duːls |
| 鐓 | *duːls |
| 鷻 | *doːn |
| 鶉 | *doːn, *djun |
| 惇 | *tuːn, *tjun |
| 墩 | *tuːn |
| 驐 | *tuːn |
| 燉 | *tuːns, *tʰuːn, *duːn |
| 焞 | *tʰuːn, *djun |
| 啍 | *tʰuːn, *duːn |
| 暾 | *tʰuːn |
| 噋 | *tʰuːn, *kʰʷaːɡ |
| 諄 | *tjun, *tjuns |
| 埻 | *tjunʔ, *kʷaːɡ, *kʷreːɡ |
| 稕 | *tjuns |
| 醇 | *djun |
| 淳 | *djun |
| 犉 | *njun |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄣˊ
- Wade-Giles: ch'un2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chwen
- IPA (key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ən³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: seon4
- Yale: sèuhn
- Cantonese Pinyin: soen4
- IPA (key): /sɵn²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 淳 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 常 (25) |
| Final (韻) | 諄 (47) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 常倫切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/d͡ʑiuɪn/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/d͡ʑʷin/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/d͡ʑjuen/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/d͡ʑwin/ |
| Li Rong |
/ʑiuĕn/ |
| Wang Li |
/ʑĭuĕn/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ʑi̯uĕn/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
chún |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Character | 淳 | 淳 | 淳 | 淳 | 淳 |
| Reading # | 1/5 | 2/5 | 3/5 | 4/5 | 5/5 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
chún | chún | chún | zhūn | zhǔn |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ dzywin › | ‹ dzywin › | ‹ dzywin › | ‹ tsywin › | ‹ tsywinX › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[d]u[r]/ | /*[d]u[r]/ | /*[d]u[r]/ | /*tur/ | /*turʔ/ |
| English | a pair | simple, unadorned | ample | moisten | measure of breadth (of cloth) |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |||||
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 淳 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 2617 |
| Phonetic component |
敦 |
| Rime group |
文 |
| Rime subdivision |
2 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
純 |
| Old Chinese |
/*djun/ |
Definitions
淳
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Compounds
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Japanese
Kanji
淳
(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)
Readings
Proper noun
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 淳 |
|
あつし Jinmeiyō |
淳 (hiragana あつし, romaji Atsushi)
- A male given name
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 淳 |
|
じゅん Jinmeiyō |
| on'yomi |
- A male given name
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 淳 |
|
きよし Jinmeiyō |
淳 (hiragana きよし, romaji Kiyoshi)
- A male given name