yùn

rhyme

Of equal  tone  also provides the pronunciation

Components
音 meaning component

  Meaning component

yīn

  

sound

員 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

yuán

  

member

Evolution

韻 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
韻 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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yùn

rhyme; vowel; the final (of a syllable) (Chinese phonology); appeal; charm; (literary) pleasant sound

Most common words with 韻
Freq.
Word
Meaning

appeal

押韵

to rhyme

韵味

interest

韵律

cadence

韵事

poetic occasion

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[m-qʷ]<r>i[n]-s (no pre-Qín exx.)

hwinH

yùn

harmony; rhyme


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.9244% of movies

2523rd most common character in movies

2501st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

Unicode

U+97FB

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“韻,和也。从音,員聲。裴光遠云:‘古與均同。’未知其審。”


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