xún

ten-day period

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
云 sound component

  Sound component

yún

  

clouds

日 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

sun

Evolution

旬 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
旬 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
旬 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
旬 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

xún

ten-day period; period of time; ten days; ten years; full period

Most common words with 旬
Freq.
Word
Meaning

中旬

middle third of a month

ten days

下旬

last third of the month

上旬

first third of a month

旬日

short period

Component uses

Sound component in 12 characters (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-N-qʷi[n]

zwin

xún

ten-day cycle


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2332nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+65EC

Shuowen

“旬,徧也。十日為旬。从勹、日。,古文。”


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