Chinese Character Wiki

淳

chún

honest

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 享 represents the sound. Simplified form of 湻.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

享 sound component

享  Sound component

xiǎng

  

enjoy

Evolution

淳 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
淳 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

淳  

chún

honest, simple, unsophisticated; cyanogen; ethane dinitrile; genuine; pure; honest

淳 (湻) 

chún

old variant of 淳[chún]

Most common words with 淳
Freq.
Word
Meaning

淳

pure

淳朴

simple and honest

淳安

Chun'an county in Hangzhou 杭州[Háng​zhōu], Zhejiang

淳安县

Chun'an county in Hangzhou 杭州[Háng​zhōu], Zhejiang

高淳

Gaochun county in Nanjing 南京, Jiangsu

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]u[r]

dzywin

chún

a pair

*[d]u[r]

dzywin

chún

simple, unadorned

*[d]u[r]

dzywin

chún

ample

*tur

tsywin

zhūn

moisten

*turʔ

tsywinX

zhǔn

measure of breadth (of cloth)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.4004% of movies

3204th most common character in movies

3147th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+6DF3

Shuowen

“，渌也。从水，聲。”


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