準

See also: 准 and 凖

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 隼

Original meaning was "water level."

Han character

準 (radical 85 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水土十 (EGJ), four-corner 3040₁, composition ⿱淮十)

1. rule, guideline, standard
2. rank next to, follow
3. (prefix) quasi-, pene-, para-, sub-, semi-, demi-

References

• KangXi: page 639, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17934
• Dae Jaweon: page 1046, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1700, character 5
• Unihan data for U+6E96

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Cantonese

Hanzi

準 (simplified 准, Jyutping zeon2, Yale jeun2)

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Japanese

Kanji

準

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: じゅん (jun), せつ (setsu)
• Kun: ひとしい (hitoshii), みずもり (mizumori), のり (nori)

Proper noun

準 (hiragana ひとし, romaji Hitoshi)

1. A male given name

Compounds

• 準備 (じゅんび) (junbi, “preparations”)
• 水準 (すいじゅん) (suijun, “level”)
• 標準 (ひょうじゅん) (hyōjun, “standard”)
• 基準 (きじゅん) (kijun, “basis”)

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Korean

Hanja

準 (hangeul 준, 절 (jun, jeol), revised jun, jeol, McCune-Reischauer chun, chŏl, Yale cwun, cel)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

準 (simplified 准, Pinyin zhǔn (zhun3), Wade-Giles chun³)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

準 (POJ chún (chun²), TLPA tsún (tsun²))

References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Vietnamese

Han character

準 (chuẩn, choán, chốn, chủn, trúng, trốn)