旬

Stroke order

旬 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 心日 (PA), four-corner 2762₀, composition ⿹勹日)

• 侚, 迿, 咰, 姰, 峋, 徇, 恂, 洵, 狥, 栒, 殉, 毥, 珣, 絢 (绚), 𰃢, 詢 (询), 𤱬, 駨, 郇, 荀

• 复 傷

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 489, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13746
• Dae Jaweon: page 850, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1485, character 3
• Unihan data for U+65EC

Historical forms of the character 旬
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sɢʷin) : phonetic 螾 (OC *lin, *linʔ) + semantic 日 (“sun; day”).

The pictographic protoform of 螾 was borrowed to represent "period of days" in oracle bone script. In bronze inscriptions, the semantic component 日 (“sun/day”) was added to this character. In the Warring States period, the phonetic component was mistaken as 勹 (“bow down”), hence the incorrect analysis in Shuowen Jiezi of this character as 勹 + 日.

旬

1. ten-day period
2. ten years

   七旬老翁  ―  qī xún lǎowēng  ―  seventy-year-old man

3. period of time

• “旬”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “旬”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 272.

(Jōyō kanji)

1. period of ten days

• Go-on: じゅん (jun, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: しゅん (shun, Jōyō ^†)

Derived from Middle Chinese 旬 (MC zwin).

• (Tokyo) しゅん (Atamadaka – )^[1]
• (Tokyo) しゅん (Heiban – )^[1]
• IPA^(key):

旬(しゅん) • (shun) ^{←しゆん (syun)?}

1. season (of something, as in "in season")

   旬(しゅん)の野菜(やさい)

   shun no yasai

   in-season vegetables

   春(はる)に旬(しゅん)を迎(むか)える

   haru ni shun o mukaeru

   to be in season come spring

   旬(しゅん)のジャンル

   shun no janru

   in-vogue genre

旬(ひとし) • (Hitoshi) 

1. a male given name

From Middle Chinese 旬 (MC zwin). Recorded as Middle Korean 슌 (syun) (Yale: syun) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

旬

Wikisource

旬 (eumhun 열흘 순 (yeolheul sun))

1. hanja form^? of 순 (“ten-day period”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

旬: Hán Nôm readings: tuần

1. week

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