巡

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See also: 廵
巡 U+5DE1, 巡
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5DE1
← 巠
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 巢 →

巡 U+2F881, 巡
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F881
← 嵼
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 巢 →

Translingual

Stroke order
Mainland China and Japan

Han character

巡 (Kangxi radical 47, 巛+3, 6 (Mainland China, Japan), 7 (Hong Kong) strokes, cangjie input 卜女女女 (YVVV), four-corner 32303, composition ⿺辶巛)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 324, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8680
  • Dae Jaweon: page 624, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3817, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+5DE1

Chinese

trad. 巡
simp. # 巡
alternative forms 廵
𡿽
𨑾
𨊩
𰕀

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 巡
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sɢljun) : semantic 辵 (“walk”) + phonetic 川 (OC *kʰjon).

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Rime
Character 巡
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
Baxter zwin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ziuɪn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/zʷin/
Shao
Rongfen 		/zjuen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/zwin/
Li
Rong 		/ziuĕn/
Wang
Li 		/zĭuĕn/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/zi̯uĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xún
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		ceon4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 巡
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		xún
Middle
Chinese 		‹ zwin ›
Old
Chinese 		/*u/
English perambulate

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 巡
Reading # 1/1
No. 1631
Phonetic
component 		川
Rime
group 		文
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		旬
Old
Chinese 		/*sɢljun/

Definitions

巡

  1. to patrol; to go on circuit; to cruise
  2. (Hokkien) mark; line
  3. Classifier for rounds of drinks during a banquet.
  4. (Hokkien) Classifier for lines.

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai 巡
Kyūjitai
[1]
巡󠄁
巡+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
巡󠄃
巡+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

巡

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. go around

Readings

Counter

巡(じゅん) • (-jun) 

  1. turn, round

See also

References

  1. ^ “巡”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja

巡 • (sun) (hangeul 순, revised sun, McCune–Reischauer sun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

巡: Hán Nôm readings: tuần

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