jùnzùn

talented

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

is a component form of .

夋 sound component

  Sound component

qūn

  

to dawdle

Evolution

俊 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
俊 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
俊 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
俊 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
俊 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

jùn

talented, capable; handsome; smart; eminent; talented

 

zùn

(dialectal pronunciation of [jùn]); cool; neat

() 

jùn

old variant of [jùn]

() 

jùn

variant of [jùn]

Most common words with 俊
Freq.
Word
Meaning

smart

英俊

handsome

俊秀

elegant

俊美

pretty

俊俏

charming

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.6085% of movies

1986th most common character in movies

1847th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+4FCA

Shuowen

“俊,材千人也。从人,夋聲。”


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