荀

Translingual

Han character

荀 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿心日 (TPA), four-corner 4462₇, composition ⿱艹旬)

Derived characters

• 槆, 㨚, 䜦, 𡟱, 𦃜, 𦳣, 𫺰

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1029, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30929
• Dae Jaweon: page 1488, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3207, character 8
• Unihan data for U+8340

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Chinese

trad.		荀
simp. #		荀

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 荀
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xún (xun²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seon¹

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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: seon¹
    • Yale: sēun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soen¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sên¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: swin

Rime
Character	荀
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	諄 (47)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	相倫切
Baxter	swin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siuɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/sʷin/
Shao Rongfen	/sjuen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/swin/
Li Rong	/siuĕn/
Wang Li	/sĭuĕn/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯uĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xūn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	seon1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s.qʷi[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sqʰʷin/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	荀
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xún
Middle Chinese	‹ swin ›
Old Chinese	/*s.qʷi[n]/
English	spec. of plant; (proper name]
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	荀
Reading #	1/1
No.	16382
Phonetic component	匀
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	荀
Old Chinese	/*sqʰʷin/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 荀

1. a surname
2. ancient state in China
3. type of plant

   青要之山有草焉，其狀如葌，而方莖黃華赤實，其本如稿本，名曰荀草，服之美人色。 [MSC, trad.]
   青要之山有草焉，其状如葌，而方茎黄华赤实，其本如稿本，名曰荀草，服之美人色。 [MSC, simp.]

   From: Classic of Mountains and Rivers, Zhongshanjing 山海經 · 中山經

   Qīngyàozhīshānyǒucǎoyān, qízhuàngrújiān, érfāngjīnghuánghuáchìshí, qíběnrúgǎoběn, míngyuēxúncǎo, fúzhīměirénsè. [Pinyin]

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Japanese

Kanji

荀

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: しゅん (shun)
• Kan-on: しゅん (shun)
• Kan’yō-on: じゅん (jun)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 荀 (tuân)

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