xún

ranges of hills stretching on beyond another irregular peaks

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
山 meaning component

  Meaning component

shān

  

mountain

旬 sound component

  Sound component

xún

  

ten-day period

Evolution

峋 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
峋 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

xún

ranges of hills stretching on beyond another irregular peaks; ranges of hills

Most common words with 峋
Freq.
Word
Meaning

瘦骨嶙峋

skinny; emaciated (idiom)

ranges of hills

嶙峋

craggy

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4478th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+5CCB

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“峋,嶙峋也。从山,旬聲。”


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