荀
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Translingual
Han character
荀 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿心日 (TPA), four-corner 44627, composition ⿱艹旬)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1029, character 18
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30929
- Dae Jaweon: page 1488, character 11
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3207, character 8
- Unihan data for U+8340
Chinese
| trad. | 荀 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. # | 荀 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 荀 | |
|---|---|
| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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| Old Chinese | |
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| 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
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): seon1
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): song1 / suong1 / song2 / suong2
- Southern Min
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄣˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: syún
- Wade–Giles: hsün2
- Yale: syún
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyun
- Palladius: сюнь (sjunʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɕyn³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: seon1
- Yale: sēun
- Cantonese Pinyin: soen1
- Guangdong Romanization: sên1
- Sinological IPA (key): /sɵn⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Puxian Min
- (Putian)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: song1
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɬɔŋ⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: suong1
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɬuoŋ⁵³³/
- (Putian)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: song2
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɬɔŋ¹³/
- (Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: suong2
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɬuoŋ¹³/
- (Putian)
- Southern Min
- Middle Chinese: swin
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*s.qʷi/
- (Zhengzhang): /*sqʰʷin/
Definitions
荀
- a surname
- (historical) name of an ancient state in China
- (obsolete) name of a plant
- 有草焉，其狀如葌，而方莖黃華赤實，其本如稿本，名曰荀草，服之美人色。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: The Classic of Mountains and Seas
- Yǒu cǎo yān, qí zhuàng rú jiān, ér fāng jīng huáng huá chì shí, qí běn rú gǎo běn, míng yuē xúncǎo, fú zhī měi rén sè.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
有草焉，其状如葌，而方茎黄华赤实，其本如稿本，名曰荀草，服之美人色。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
Compounds
References
- 莆田县县志編輯委員会 , editor (1964), 莆田方言志（語音編） [Chronicle of Putian Dialect (Volume of Phonetics)] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min).
- 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “荀”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 272.
Japanese
Kanji
荀
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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
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