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See also:
U+96CB, 雋
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96CB

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 172, +5, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人土中一尸 (OGLMS), four-corner 20227, composition ⿰丨𠃌)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1366, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41996
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1870, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4095, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+96CB

Chinese

trad. /
simp.
alternative forms 𮥼

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : (bird) + (bow).

A bow is aiming at a bird upward.

Etymology

Likely from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsow-s (fat, omentum); cognate with Tibetan ཚོ་བ (tsho ba, fat), Burmese ဆူ (hcu, plump), as well as (OC *ʔsol, *ʔsonʔ, “thick meat stew”) (STEDT).

Pronunciation 1



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (15)
Final () (78)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter dzjwenX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡ziuᴇnX/
Pan
Wuyun
/d͡zʷiɛnX/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡zjuænX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/d͡zwianX/
Li
Rong
/d͡ziuɛnX/
Wang
Li
/d͡zĭwɛnX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/d͡zʱi̯wɛnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
juàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zyun6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 7218
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*zonʔ/

Definitions

  1. (obsolete, especially of bird meat) plump; fatty; rich; delicious
  2. (literary) meaningful; thought-provoking
  3. a surname

Compounds

Pronunciation 2


Definitions

  1. (literary) Alternative form of (jùn, one who is superior in talent; superior in talent)

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. excel

Readings

  • On (unclassified): せん (sen)しゅん (shun)
  • Kun: すぐれる (sugureru)

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: tuấn

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