循

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 彳 (“movement”) + phonetic 盾 – to follow (movement).

Han character

循 (radical 60 彳+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹人竹十山 (HOHJU), four-corner 2226₄)

1. obey, comply with, follow

References

• KangXi: page 369, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10187
• Dae Jaweon: page 696, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 835, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5FAA

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Cantonese

Hanzi

循 (jyutping ceon4, Yale cheun4)

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Japanese

Kanji

循 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: じゅん (jun)
• Kun: したがう (shitagau)

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Korean

Hanja

循 (hangeul 순, revised sun, McCune-Reischauer sun, Yale swun)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

循 (pinyin wéi (wei2), xún (xun2), Wade-Giles wei², hsün²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

循 (tuần)