雋

See also 隽

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 隹 (“bird”) + 弓 (“bow”)

A bow is aiming at a bird upward.

Han character

雋 (radical 172 隹+5, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人土中一尸 (OGLMS), four-corner 2022₇)

1. superior, outstanding, talented

References

• KangXi: page 1366, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41996
• Dae Jaweon: page 1870, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4095, character 3
• Unihan data for U+96CB

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Cantonese

Hanzi

雋 (simplified 隽, Yale jeun3, syun5)

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Japanese

Kanji

雋

Readings

• On: せん (sen), しゅん (shun)
• Kun: すぐれる (sugureru)

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Korean

Hanja

雋 (hangeul 준, revised jun, McCune-Reischauer chun, Yale cwun)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

雋 (simplified 隽, pinyin jùn (jun4), Wade-Giles chün⁴)