cūn

village

A rustic  town  also provides the pronunciation

Components
屯 meaning component

  Meaning component

túnzhūn

  

village

阝 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

  

hill, place

Evolution

邨 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
邨 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
邨 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
邨 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
邨 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

cūn

village, hamlet; rustic

 

Cūn

surname Cun

() 

cūn

variant of [cūn]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5514th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+90A8

Shuowen

“邨,地名。从邑,屯聲。”


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