jùn

dredge

Evolution

濬 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
濬 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
濬 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
Definitions

 

jùn

dredge, dig; profound, deep

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jùn

variant of [jùn]

Most common words with 濬
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to extract

疏浚

to dredge

浚县

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

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-[q]ʷi[n|ŋ]-s

swinH

xùn

deep


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3753rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+6FEC

Shuowen

“,深通川也。从谷,从;,殘地阮坎意也。《虞書》曰:‘畎澮距川。’,或从水。濬,古文。”


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