jùn

dredge

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

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

夋 sound component

  Sound component

qūn

  

to dawdle

Evolution

浚 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

jùn

dredge; to deepen (e.g. a ditch); to extract; to manage; ladle (old)

() 

jùn

variant of [jùn]

Most common words with 浚
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to extract

疏浚

to dredge

浚县

Xun County in Hebi 鶴壁|鹤壁[Hè​bì], Henan

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3753rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+6D5A

Shuowen

“浚,杼也。从水,夋聲。”


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