順

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See also: 顺
順 U+9806, 順
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9806
← 項
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 頇 →

Translingual

Han character

Stroke order
12 strokes

順 (Kangxi radical 181, 頁+3, 12 strokes, cangjie input 中中中金 (LLLC), four-corner 21086, composition ⿰川頁)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1399, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43349
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1916, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4357, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+9806

Chinese

trad. 順
simp. 顺
alternative forms 𩑎
㥧
幁
𠈼 ancient

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 順
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming) Libian (compiled in Qing)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Qin slip script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts Clerical 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 *ɢljuns) : phonetic 川 (OC *kʰjon) + semantic 頁. Shuowen considers it to be an ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 川 (“river”) + 頁 (“head”) - flowing in the river, i.e. following/obeying the river's current. Compare the English phrase go with the flow.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 順
Mandarin Beijing /ʂuən⁵¹/
Harbin /ʂuən⁵³/
Tianjin /ʂuən⁵³/
/suən⁵³/
Jinan /suẽ²¹/
/ʈ͡ʂʰuẽ⁰/ 孝～
Qingdao /ʂuə̃⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʂuən³¹²/
Xi'an /fẽ⁴⁴/
Xining /fə̃²¹³/
Yinchuan /ʂuŋ¹³/
Lanzhou /fə̃n¹³/
Ürümqi /ʂuŋ²¹³/
/fɤŋ²¹³/
Wuhan /ɕyn³⁵/
Chengdu /suən¹³/
Guiyang /suen²¹³/
Kunming /ʂuə̃²¹²/
Nanjing /ʂun⁴⁴/
Hefei /ʂuən⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /suəŋ⁴⁵/
Pingyao /suŋ³⁵/
Hohhot /sũŋ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /zəŋ²³/
Suzhou /zən³¹/
Hangzhou /zz̩ʷen¹³/
Wenzhou /joŋ²²/
Hui Shexian /ɕyʌ̃²²/
Tunxi /ɕyan¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ɕyn⁵⁵/
/ɕyn¹¹/
Xiangtan /ɕyn⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /sun²¹/
Hakka Meixian /sun⁵³/
Taoyuan /ʃun⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /søn²²/
Nanning /syn²²/
/sɐn²²/
Hong Kong /søn²²/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /sun²²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /souŋ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /sœyŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /suŋ³⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /tun³³/
/tun²³/ 便～
Rime
Character 順
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 船 (27)
Final (韻) 諄 (47)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 食閏切
Baxter zywinH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʑiuɪnH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʑʷinH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʑjuenH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʑwinH/
Li
Rong 		/d͡ʑiuĕnH/
Wang
Li 		/d͡ʑĭuĕnH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/d͡ʑʰi̯uĕnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		shùn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		seon6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 順
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		shùn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ zywinH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*Cə.lu-s/
English follow; obey

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 順
Reading # 1/1
No. 1636
Phonetic
component 		川
Rime
group 		文
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		順
Old
Chinese 		/*ɢljuns/

Definitions

順

  1. to follow; to go along with
  2. to obey; to submit to
  3. smooth; successful
  4. to make smooth
  5. (colloquial) to bring (something extra) back while one was at it; to pilfer
    他這人手不老實，前幾天還把人一包兒給順了。 [dialectal Mandarin, trad.]
    他这人手不老实，前几天还把人一包儿给顺了。 [dialectal Mandarin, simp.]
    Tā zhèi rén shǒu bù lǎoshi, qián jǐ tiān hái bǎ rén yī bāor gěi shùn le.
    He is not honest, a few days ago he even stole a bag from someone.
  6. (literary, or in compounds) harmonious; peaceful; conflict-free
  7. to suit; to fit; to agree with
  8. cisgender
  9. (chemistry) cis-
    順反異構／顺反异构  ―  shùn-fǎn yìgòu  ―  cis-trans isomerism
    順-2-丁烯／顺-2-丁烯  ―  shùn-èr-dīngxī  ―  cis-2-butene

Synonyms

  • (to obey):
  • (harmonious):
  • (to suit):

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of “cis-”): 反 (fǎn)
  • (antonym(s) of “cisgender”): 跨 (kuà)

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (順):
  • → Japanese: 順(じゅん) (jun)
  • → Korean: 순(順) (sun)
  • → Vietnamese: thuận (順)

Others:

  • → Vietnamese: thuần (“docile; experienced”)

References

Japanese

Kanji

順

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. order, sequence
  2. obedience

Readings

Compounds

Compounds

Pronunciation

Noun

順(じゅん) • (jun) 

  1. order, sequence, turn

Proper noun

順(じゅん) • (Jun) 

  1. a male given name

Suffix

順(じゅん) • (-jun) 

  1. order, sequence

References

  1. ^ “順”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024

Korean

Hanja

順 (eumhun 순할 순 (sunhal sun))

  1. hanja form? of 순 (“obedience”)

Vietnamese

Han character

順: Hán Nôm readings: thuận, thộn

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