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TranslingualEdit

EtymologyEdit

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ljun): semantic 彳 ‎(“movement”) + phonetic 盾 ‎(OC *l'uːnʔ, *ɦljunʔ) – to follow (movement).

Han characterEdit

循 (radical 60 彳+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹人竹十山 (HOHJU), four-corner 2226₄, composition ⿰彳盾)

1. obey, comply with, follow

ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: page 369, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10187
• Dae Jaweon: page 696, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 835, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5FAA

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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		循

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xún (xun²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ceon⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): sûn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: xún
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄣˊ
    • Wade-Giles: hsün²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyun
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕyn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ceon⁴
    • Yale: chèuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoen⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰɵn²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sûn
    • Tâi-lô: sûn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: suun
    • IPA (Taipei): /sun²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sun¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ziuɪn/▼

Rime
Character	循
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	諄 (47)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	詳遵切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ziuɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/zʷin/
Shao Rongfen	/zjuen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zwin/
Li Rong	/ziuĕn/
Wang Li	/zĭuĕn/
Bernard Karlgren	/zi̯uĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xún

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*sə.lu[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ljun/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	循
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xún
Middle Chinese	‹ zwin ›
Old Chinese	/*sə.lu[n]/
English	follow
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	循
Reading #	1/1
No.	2626
Phonetic component	盾
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	旬
Old Chinese	/*ljun/

DefinitionsEdit

循

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

循

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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ReadingsEdit

• Goon: じゅん (jun)
• Kan’on: しゅん (shun) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kun: したがう (shitagau)

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

循 • ‎(sun) (hangeul 순, revised sun, McCune-Reischauer sun, Yale swun)

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

循 (tuần)

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