旬

See also: 句

Translingual

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 旬
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (匀) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
枃	*skins
笉	*skʰinʔ
郇	*ɡʷreːn, *sqʰʷin
絢	*qʰʷiːns
眴	*qʰʷiːns, *ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷin, *qʰʷjins, *ŋʷjin
盷	*ɡʷiːn
訇	*ɡʷiːn, *qʰʷreːŋ
迿	*ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷins
姰	*ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷin
畇	*l'iːŋ, *sqʰʷin, *sɢʷin, *ɢʷin
荀	*sqʰʷin
詢	*sqʰʷin
洵	*sqʰʷin, *sɢʷin
恂	*sqʰʷin
峋	*sqʰʷin
珣	*sqʰʷin
槆	*sqʰʷin
筍	*sqʰʷinʔ
箰	*sqʰʷinʔ
旬	*sɢʷin
殉	*sɢʷins
徇	*sɢʷins
侚	*sɢʷins
均	*kʷin
鈞	*kʷin
袀	*kʷin
汮	*kʷin, *kʷrin
呁	*kʷins
筠	*ɡʷin
荺	*ɢʷin, *ɡʷinʔ
匀	*ɢʷin
韵	*ɢʷins
輷	*qʰʷreːŋ, *qʰʷreːŋs
揈	*qʰʷreːŋ
鍧	*qʰʷreːŋ
渹	*qʰʷreːŋ
赹	*ɡʷeŋ
憌	*ɡʷeŋ
惸	*ɡʷeŋ
咰	*sqʰʷrid

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sɢʷin) : 螾 (“earthworm”) + 日 (“sun/day”).

The pictographic protoform of 螾 was borrowed to represent "period of days" in oracle bone script. In bronze inscriptions, the semantic component 日 (“sun/day”) was added to this character. The phonetic component was mixed with another common semantic component 勹 ("bow down") in Warring States period, hence the incorrect analysis in Shuowen Jiezi of this character as 勹 + 日.

Han character

旬 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 心日 (PA), four-corner 2762₀, composition ⿹勹日)

See also

• 复 傷

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 489, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13746
• Dae Jaweon: page 850, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1485, character 3
• Unihan data for U+65EC

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		旬
alternative forms		𠣙

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xún (xun²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ceon⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sûn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xún
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syún
    • Wade–Giles: hsün²
    • Yale: syún
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyun
    • Palladius: сюнь (sjunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕyn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ceon⁴
    • Yale: chèuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoen⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: cên⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɵn²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sûn
    • Tâi-lô: sûn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: suun
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sun²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sun²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sun¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sun²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sun²³/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 旬
Mandarin	Beijing	/ɕyn³⁵/
	Harbin	/ɕyn²⁴/
	Tianjin	/ɕyn⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/ɕyẽ⁴²/ /ɕyẽ⁵⁵/ 上～
	Qingdao	/syə̃⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/syn⁴²/
	Xi'an	/ɕyẽ²⁴/
	Xining	/ɕyə̃²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/ɕyŋ⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/ɕỹn⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/ɕyŋ⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/ɕyn²¹³/ 七～ /ɕin²¹³/ 上～
	Chengdu	/ɕyn³¹/
	Guiyang	/ɕin²¹/
	Kunming	/ɕĩ³¹/
	Nanjing	/syn²⁴/
	Hefei	/ɕyn⁵⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/ɕyəŋ¹¹/
	Pingyao	/ɕyŋ¹³/
	Hohhot	/ɕỹŋ³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/ɕyŋ³⁵/ /ɕioŋ³⁵/
	Suzhou	/zin¹³/
	Hangzhou	/sz̩ʷen³³/
	Wenzhou	/joŋ³¹/
Hui	Shexian	/ɕyʌ̃⁴⁴/
	Tunxi	/ɕyan⁴⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/sən¹³/
	Xiangtan	/sən¹²/
Gan	Nanchang	/ɕyn⁴⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/sun¹¹/
	Taoyuan	/sun¹¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/t͡sʰøn²¹/
	Nanning	/ɬɐn²¹/
	Hong Kong	/t͡sʰøn²¹/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/sun³⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/suŋ⁵³/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/sœyŋ²¹/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/suŋ⁵⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/tun³¹/

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• Middle Chinese: zwin

Rime
Character	旬
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	諄 (47)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	詳遵切
Baxter	zwin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ziuɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/zʷin/
Shao Rongfen	/zjuen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zwin/
Li Rong	/ziuĕn/
Wang Li	/zĭuĕn/
Bernard Karlgren	/zi̯uĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xún
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ceon4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-N-qʷi[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sɢʷin/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	旬
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xún
Middle Chinese	‹ zwin ›
Old Chinese	/*s-N-qʷi[n]/
English	ten-day cycle
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	旬
Reading #	1/1
No.	16395
Phonetic component	匀
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	旬
Old Chinese	/*sɢʷin/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 旬

1. ten-day period
2. ten years
3. period of time

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Japanese

Kanji

旬

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. decameron; period of ten days

Readings

• Go-on: じゅん (jun, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: しゅん (shun, Jōyō ^†)

Proper noun

旬(ひとし) • (Hitoshi) 

1. a male given name

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Korean

Hanja

旬 • (sun) (hangeul 순, revised sun, McCune–Reischauer sun, Yale swun)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 旬 (tuần)

1. week

References

• Nom Foundation