筠

筠 U+7B60, 筠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7B60 ← 筟 [U+7B5F] CJK Unified Ideographs 筡 → [U+7B61]

Translingual

Han character

筠 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+7, 13 strokes, Cangjie input 竹土心一 (HGPM), four-corner 8812₇, composition ⿱𥫗均)

1. bamboo skin
2. bamboo
3. name of a Chinese prefecture

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 884, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26032
• Dae Jaweon: page 1313, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2971, character 10
• Unihan data for U+7B60

Chinese

trad.		筠
simp. #		筠

Glyph origin

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 *ɡʷin): semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 均 (OC *kʷin).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yún (yun²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wan⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yún
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yún
    • Wade–Giles: yün²
    • Yale: yún
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yun
    • Palladius: юнь (junʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /yn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: wan⁴
    • Yale: wàhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: wen⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐn²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: hwin

Rime
Character	筠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	云 (35)
Final (韻)	眞 (45)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	爲贇切
Baxter	hwin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠiuɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷᵚin/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣiuen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦjin/
Li Rong	/ɣjuĕn/
Wang Li	/ɣǐĕn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i̯ĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yún
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wan4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷri[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷin/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	筠
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yún
Middle Chinese	‹ hwin ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ʷri[n]/
English	rind of bamboo
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	筠
Reading #	1/1
No.	16409
Phonetic component	匀
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	筠
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷin/
Notes	見史記原列眞韻

Definitions

筠

1. (literary) skin of bamboo
2. (literary) bamboo

Compounds

• 松筠之操
• 松筠之節 / 松筠之节
• 筠竹
• 筠筒

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Jūn (Jun¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Jūn
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Jyun
    • Wade–Giles: Chün¹
    • Yale: Jyūn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Jiun
    • Palladius: Цзюнь (Czjunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕyn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gwan¹
    • Yale: gwān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: guen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɐn⁵⁵/

Definitions

筠

1. (historical) Jun prefecture

Compounds

• 筠連 / 筠连 (Jūnlián)

Japanese

Kanji

筠

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): いん (in)、うん (un)
• Kun: たけ (take)

Korean

Hanja

筠 • (gyun) (hangeul 균, revised gyun, McCune–Reischauer kyun, Yale kyun)

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