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舜

舜

Translingual

Han character

舜 (radical 136 舛+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 月月弓手 (BBNQ), four-corner 2025₂, composition ⿳爫冖舛)

References

KangXi: page 1008, character 10

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30339

Dae Jaweon: page 1465, character 13

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2035, character 2

Unihan data for U+821C

Chinese

simp. and trad.		舜

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (舛) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
舛	*tʰjonʔ
荈	*tʰjonʔ
僢	*l̥ʰjunʔ
舜	*hljuns
瞬	*hljuns
蕣	*hljuns

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): shùn (shun⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄨㄣˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): seon³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: shùn
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄣˋ
  - Wade-Giles: shun⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuenn
  - IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯ən⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: seon³
  - Yale: seun
  - Cantonese Pinyin: soen³
  - IPA ^(key): /sɵn³³/

Middle Chinese: /ɕiuɪn^H/▼

Rime
Character	舜
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	諄 (47)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	舒閏切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕiuɪn^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕʷin^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕjuen^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕwin^H/
Li Rong	/ɕiuĕn^H/
Wang Li	/ɕĭuĕn^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɕi̯uĕn^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shùn

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*[s.t]u[n]-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*hljuns/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	舜
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shùn
Middle Chinese	‹ sywin^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[s.t]u[n]-s/
English	Hibiscus
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	舜
Reading #	1/1
No.	1643
Phonetic component	舛
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	舜
Old Chinese	/*hljuns/

Definitions

舜

Emperor Shun, legendary ruler of ancient China

Japanese

Kanji

舜

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

On: しゅん (shun)

Kun: ひるがお (hirugao), むくげ (mukuge), さとい (satoi)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

舜 (thuấn)

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