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Translingual

Han character

(radical 162 +12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜廿田戈 (YTWI), four-corner 38304)

  1. obey, comply with, follow
  2. honor

References

  • KangXi: page 1264, character 26
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39118
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1760, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3885, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9075

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ʔsuːn
*ʔsuːn
*ʔsuːn
*ʔsuːn, *ʔsun
*ʔsuːn
*ʔsuːnʔ
*ʔsuːnʔ
*ʔsuːnʔ
*ʔsuːnʔ
*zuːn
*zuːnʔ, *zuːns
*zuːns
*ʔsun
*ʔsun, *zun
*sʰun
*sʰun

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔsun) : semantic  (walk) + phonetic  (OC *ʔsuːn).

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /t͡suən⁵⁵/
Harbin /t͡suən⁴⁴/
Tianjin /t͡suən²¹/
Jinan /t͡suẽ²¹³/
Qingdao /t͡suə̃²¹³/
Zhengzhou /t͡suən²⁴/
Xi'an /t͡suẽ²¹/
Xining /t͡suə̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /t͡suŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /t͡sũn³¹/
Ürümqi /t͡suŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /t͡sən⁵⁵/
Chengdu /t͡sən⁵⁵/
Guiyang /t͡sen⁵⁵/
Kunming /t͡suə̃⁴⁴/
Nanjing /t͡sun³¹/
Hefei /t͡sən²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡suəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /t͡suŋ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡sũŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /t͡səŋ⁵³/
Suzhou /t͡sən⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡sz̩ʷen³³/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕoŋ³³/
Hui Shexian /t͡sʌ̃³¹/
Tunxi /t͡suːə¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /t͡sən³³/
Xiangtan /t͡sən³³/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sun⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sun⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /t͡sun²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡søn⁵³/
Nanning /t͡syn⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /t͡søn⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡sun⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡souŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sɔŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡suŋ³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /t͡sun²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (13)
Final () (47)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡siuɪn/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡sʷin/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sjuen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡swin/
Li
Rong
/t͡siuĕn/
Wang
Li
/t͡sĭuĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡si̯uĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jūn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zūn
Middle
Chinese
‹ tswin ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ts]u[n]/
English follow (a road)

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 17997
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ʔsun/

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Japanese

Kanji

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(jun) (hangeul , revised jun, McCune-Reischauer chun, Yale cwun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tuân)

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