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馴

See also: 驯

Translingual

Han character

馴 (radical 187 馬+3, 13 strokes, cangjie input 尸火中中中 (SFLLL), four-corner 7230₀, composition ⿰馬川)

References

KangXi: page 1434, character 14

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44595

Dae Jaweon: page 1959, character 2

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4541, character 10

Unihan data for U+99B4

Chinese

trad.		馴
simp.		驯

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (川) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
川	*kʰjon
釧	*kʰjons
巛	*kʰuːn
巡	*sɢljun
馴	*sɢljun
紃	sɢljun, ɢljun
甽	kljuns, kʷeːnʔ
順	*ɢljuns
訓	*qʰuns

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): xùn, xún

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄣˋ, ㄒㄩㄣˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): seon⁴, ceon⁴
Min Nan (POJ): sûn

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
  - Pinyin: xùn
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄣˋ
  - Wade-Giles: hsün⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiunn
  - IPA ^(key): /ɕyn⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
  - Pinyin: xún
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄣˊ
  - Wade-Giles: hsün²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyun
  - IPA ^(key): /ɕyn³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: seon⁴, ceon⁴
  - Yale: sèuhn, chèuhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: soen⁴, tsoen⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /sɵn²¹/, /t͡ɕʰɵn²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sûn
  - Tâi-lô: sûn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: suun
  - IPA (Xiamen): /sun²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /sun²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /sun¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /sun²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /sun²³/

Middle Chinese: /ziuɪn/▼

Rime
Character	馴
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

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*sə.lu[n]/

(Zhengzhang): /*sɢljun/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	馴
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xún
Middle Chinese	‹ zwin ›
Old Chinese	/*sə.lu[n]/
English	docile; gradually
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	馴
Reading #	1/1
No.	1632
Phonetic component	川
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	旬
Old Chinese	/*sɢljun/

Definitions

馴

tame; docile: obedient
to tame

Compounds

桀敖不馴／桀敖不驯
桀驁不馴／桀骜不驯 (jié'àobùxùn)
桀驁難馴／桀骜难驯
植物馴化／植物驯化
溫馴／温驯
雅馴／雅驯
馴伏／驯伏

馴化／驯化 (xùnhuà)
馴和／驯和
馴善／驯善
馴擾／驯扰
馴服／驯服 (xùnfú)
馴良／驯良

馴行／驯行
馴象／驯象
馴順／驯顺
馴養／驯养 (xùnyǎng)
馴鴿／驯鸽
馴鹿／驯鹿 (xùnlù)

Japanese

Kanji

馴

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Goon: じゅん (jun)

Kan’on: しゅん (shun)

Kun: なれる (nareru), ならす (narasu), したがう (shitagau)

Korean

Hanja

馴 • ‎(sun, hun) (hangeul 순, 훈, revised sun, hun, McCune-Reischauer sun, hun, Yale swun, hwun)

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