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荀

荀

Translingual

Han character

荀 (radical 140 艸+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿心日 (TPA), four-corner 44627, composition ⿱艹旬)

  1. used as a surname
  2. ancient state
  3. plant

References

  • KangXi: page 1029, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30929
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1488, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3207, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+8340

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 荀

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 荀
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (匀) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
枃 *skins
笉 *skʰinʔ
郇 *ɡʷreːn, *sqʰʷin
絢 *qʰʷiːns
眴 *qʰʷiːns, *ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷin, *qʰʷjins, *ŋʷjin
盷 *ɡʷiːn
訇 *ɡʷiːn, *qʰʷreːŋ
迿 *ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷins
姰 *ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷin
畇 *l'iːŋ, *sqʰʷin, *sɢʷin, *ɢʷin
荀 *sqʰʷin
詢 *sqʰʷin
洵 *sqʰʷin, *sɢʷin
恂 *sqʰʷin
峋 *sqʰʷin
珣 *sqʰʷin
槆 *sqʰʷin
筍 *sqʰʷinʔ
箰 *sqʰʷinʔ
旬 *sɢʷin
殉 *sɢʷins
徇 *sɢʷins
侚 *sɢʷins
均 *kʷin
鈞 *kʷin
袀 *kʷin
汮 *kʷin, *kʷrin
呁 *kʷins
筠 *ɡʷin
荺 *ɢʷin, *ɡʷinʔ
匀 *ɢʷin
韵 *ɢʷins
輷 *qʰʷreːŋ, *qʰʷreːŋs
揈 *qʰʷreːŋ
鍧 *qʰʷreːŋ
渹 *qʰʷreːŋ
赹 *ɡʷeŋ
憌 *ɡʷeŋ
惸 *ɡʷeŋ
咰 *sqʰʷrid

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 荀
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 諄 (47)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 相倫切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /siuɪn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /sʷin/
Shao
Rongfen		 /sjuen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /swin/
Li
Rong		 /siuĕn/
Wang
Li		 /sĭuĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /si̯uĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xūn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 荀
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xún
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ swin ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s.qʷi[n]/
English spec. of plant; (proper name]

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 荀
Reading # 1/1
No. 16382
Phonetic
component		 匀
Rime
group		 眞
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 荀
Old
Chinese		 /*sqʰʷin/

Definitions

荀

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Compounds

  • 孟荀
  • 荀令香
  • 荀勖
  • 荀卿
  • 荀況／荀况
  • 荀派
  • 荀粲熨婦／荀粲熨妇

Japanese

Kanji

荀

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

荀 (tuân)

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