夋

夋 U+590B, 夋 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-590B ← 夊 [U+590A] CJK Unified Ideographs 夌 → [U+590C]

Translingual

Han character

夋 (radical 35, 夊+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 戈金竹水 (ICHE), composition ⿳厶八夂(G) or ⿳厶⿰丿㇄夊(T) or ⿱允夂(J) or ⿱允夊(K))

Descendants

• 俊, 梭, 駿, 竣, 酸, 逡, 䞭, 悛, 皴, 晙, 狻, 脧, 㕙, 焌, 浚, 餕, 𠅣, 鵔, 捘, 畯, 陖, 峻, 𭯚, 唆

References

• KangXi: page 245, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5711
• Dae Jaweon: page 485, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 868, character 12
• Unihan data for U+590B

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		夋

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sʰlun): phonetic 允 (OC *lunʔ) + semantic 夊 (“walk”).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qūn (qun¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ceon¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: qūn
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩㄣ
    • Wade–Giles: ch'ün¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiun
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cyun
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰyn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ceon¹
    • Yale: chēun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoen¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: cên¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃʰɵn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡sʰiuɪn/▼

Rime
Character	夋
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	諄 (47)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	七倫切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰiuɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰʷin/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰjuen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰwin/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰiuĕn/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰĭuĕn/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰi̯uĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qūn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[tsʰ]u[r]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sʰlun/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	夋
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qūn
Middle Chinese	‹ tshwin ›
Old Chinese	/*[tsʰ]u[r]/
English	to run; to squat (Shuōwén)
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	夋
Reading #	1/1
No.	16466
Phonetic component	允
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	逡
Old Chinese	/*sʰlun/

Definitions

夋

1. to dawdle
2. Emperor Yao's father
3. fleet-footed

References

• (Cantonese) Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 1), p. 90

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 夋 – see 酸 (“sour; tart; sour taste; sourness; etc.”). (This character, 夋, is the second-round simplified form of 酸.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 夋 – see 痠 (“to ache; to be sore”). (This character, 夋, is the second-round simplified form of 痠.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

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Japanese

Kanji

夋

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しゅん (shun)
• Kun: おごりいる (ogoriiru), うずくまる (uzukumaru)

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Korean

Hanja

夋 • (jun) (hangeul 준, revised jun, McCune–Reischauer chun)

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