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純

chún

pure

Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 屯 represents the sound.

Components
糹 meaning component

糹  Meaning component

sī, mì

  

silk

糹 is a component form of 糸.

屯 sound component

屯  Sound component

tún, zhūn

  

village

Evolution

純 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

纯 (純) 

chún

pure, clean, simple; pure; simple; unmixed; genuine

Most common words with 純
Freq.
Word
Meaning

纯

pure

单纯

simple

纯粹

pure

纯洁

pure

纯属

to be purely

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

蒓

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]u[n]

dzywin

chún

pure, unmixed

*[d]u[n]

dzywin

chún

silken


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 23.2741% of movies

1450th most common character in movies

1125th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Simplified

纯

Unicode

U+7D14

Shuowen

“純，絲也。从糸，屯聲。《論語》曰：‘今也純儉。’”


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