荀

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荀 U+8340, 荀
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8340
← 茿
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 荁 →

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
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Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 荀
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
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
Baxter swin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/siuɪn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/sʷin/
Shao
Rongfen 		/sjuen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/swin/
Li
Rong 		/siuĕn/
Wang
Li 		/sĭuĕn/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/si̯uĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xūn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		seon1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 荀
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		xún
Middle
Chinese 		‹ swin ›
Old
Chinese 		/*s.qʷi/
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. * 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

  1. a surname
  2. (historical) name of an ancient state in China
  3. (obsolete) name of a plant

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

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: しゅん (shun)
  • Kan-on: しゅん (shun)
  • Kan’yō-on: じゅん (jun)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

荀: Hán Nôm readings: tuân

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