迅

Translingual

Han character

迅 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+3, 7 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 6 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 卜弓十 (YNJ), four-corner 3730₁, composition ⿺辶卂)

Derived characters

• 䭀(𩠇), 𩷰(𩾄)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1253, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38727
• Dae Jaweon: page 1735, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3817, character 3
• Unihan data for U+8FC5

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Chinese

trad.		迅
simp. #		迅

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 迅
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
汛	*sreːls, *siːns, *sins
軐	*siːns
卂	*sins, *tods
訊	*sins
訙	*sins
迅	*sins, *sɯns
阠	*sins, *srin, *hljins
扟	*srin
籸	*srin
蝨	*sriɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xùn (xun⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seon³
• Northern Min (KCR): sēng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xùn
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syùn
    • Wade–Giles: hsün⁴
    • Yale: syùn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiunn
    • Palladius: сюнь (sjunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕyn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: seon³
    • Yale: seun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soen³
    • Guangdong Romanization: sên³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵn³³/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: sēng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /seiŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: sinH, swinH

Rime
Character	迅	迅
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	心 (16)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	眞 (43)	諄 (47)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	息晉切	私閏切
Baxter	sinH	swinH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siɪnH/	/siuɪnH/
Pan Wuyun	/sinH/	/sʷinH/
Shao Rongfen	/sjenH/	/sjuenH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sinH/	/swinH/
Li Rong	/siĕnH/	/siuĕnH/
Wang Li	/sĭĕnH/	/sĭuĕnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯ĕnH/	/si̯uĕnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xìn	xùn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	san3	seon3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sins/, /*sɯns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	迅	迅
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	14141	14147
Phonetic component	卂	卂
Rime group	眞	文
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	信	𡺲
Old Chinese	/*sins/	/*sɯns/
Notes	卂轉註字

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 迅

1. quick; rapid

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Japanese

Kanji

迅

(Jōyō kanji)

1. swift
2. fast

Readings

• Go-on: しゅん (shun)、しん (shin)
• Kan-on: しゅん (shun)、しん (shin)
• Kan’yō-on: じん (jin, Jōyō)
• Kun: はやい (hayai, 迅い)

Compounds

• 迅速(じんそく) (jinsoku)

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Korean

Hanja

迅 • (sin) (hangeul 신, revised sin, McCune–Reischauer sin, Yale sin)

1. quick, hasty, rapid, sudden