吮

吮 U+542E, 吮 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-542E ← 吭 [U+542D] CJK Unified Ideographs 启 → [U+542F]

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Translingual

Han character

吮 (radical 30, 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口戈竹山 (RIHU), four-corner 6301₀, composition ⿰口允)

References

• KangXi: page 178, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3356
• Dae Jaweon: page 396, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 597, character 4
• Unihan data for U+542E

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		吮

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (允) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
唆	*sloːl
梭	*sloːl
葰	*sloːlʔ, *sroːlʔ, *slul
誜	*sroːls
朘	*ʔslon
捘	*ʔsluːls, *ʔsluːns, *sʰlun
荾	*slul
酸	*sloːn
狻	*sloːn
痠	*sloːn
鋑	*ʔslon
脧	*ʔsluːl
悛	*sʰlon
吮	*zlonʔ, *ɦljunʔ
萒	*ɡronʔ, *lonʔ
沇	*lonʔ
抁	*lonʔ
馻	*lonʔ, *lunʔ
兖	*lonʔ
渷	*lonʔ
兗	*lonʔ
焌	*ʔsluːns, *ʔsluns, *sʰlud
允	*lunʔ
狁	*lunʔ
玧	*lunʔ
俊	*ʔsluns
晙	*ʔsluns, *sluns
餕	*ʔsluns
畯	*ʔsluns
駿	*ʔsluns
竣	*sʰlun
皴	*sʰlun
逡	*sʰlun
踆	*sʰlun
夋	*sʰlun
埈	*sluns
陖	*sluns
鵕	*sluns
浚	*sluns
峻	*sluns

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shǔn (shun³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syun⁵, seon⁵, cyun⁵
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhiôn
• Min Nan (POJ): chhńg / chn̄g / chūiⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: shǔn
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄣˇ
    • Wade–Giles: shun³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shoen
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯ən²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: syun⁵, seon⁵, cyun⁵
    • Yale: syúhn, séuhn, chyúhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: syn⁵, soen⁵, tsyn⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: xun⁵, sên⁵, qun⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕyːn¹³/, /sɵn¹³/, /t͡ɕʰyːn¹³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhiôn
    • Hakka Romanization System: qion´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: qion¹
    • IPA: /t͡ɕʰi̯on²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhńg / chn̄g / chūiⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: tshńg / tsn̄g / tsuīnn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhngr, zng, zvui
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁵³/, /t͡sŋ̍²²/, /t͡suĩ²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁵⁵⁴/, /t͡sŋ̍⁴¹/, /t͡suĩ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁵³/, /t͡sŋ̍²²/, /t͡suĩ²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁵³/, /t͡sŋ̍³³/, /t͡suĩ³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁴¹/, /t͡sŋ̍³³/, /t͡suĩ³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ʑiuɪn^X/, /d͡ziuᴇn^X/▼

Rime
Character	吮	吮
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	船 (27)	從 (15)
Final (韻)	諄 (47)	仙 (78)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	食尹切	徂兖切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʑiuɪnX/	/d͡ziuᴇnX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʑʷinX/	/d͡zʷiɛnX/
Shao Rongfen	/ʑjuenX/	/d͡zjuænX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʑwinX/	/d͡zwianX/
Li Rong	/d͡ʑiuĕnX/	/d͡ziuɛnX/
Wang Li	/d͡ʑĭuĕnX/	/d͡zĭwɛnX/
Bernard Karlgren	/d͡ʑʰi̯uĕnX/	/d͡zʱi̯wɛnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shùn	juàn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*zlonʔ/, /*ɦljunʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	吮	吮
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	16440	16451
Phonetic component	允	允
Rime group	元	文
Rime subdivision	3	2
Corresponding MC rime	雋	盾
Old Chinese	/*zlonʔ/	/*ɦljunʔ/

Definitions

吮

1. to suck (with one's mouth)

Compounds

• 吮吸 (shǔnxī)
• 吮疽

• 吮癰舐痔／吮痈舐痔
• 吸吮 (xīshǔn)

• 舐癰吮痔／舐痈吮痔
• 舔吮

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00532

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Japanese

Kanji

吮

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): せん (sen), しゅん (shun)
• Kun: すう (suu)

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Korean

Hanja

吮 • (jeon) (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune–Reischauer chŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

吮 (duyện, giỏn, duyên)

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