淳

淳 U+6DF3, 淳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6DF3 ← 淲 [U+6DF2] CJK Unified Ideographs 淴 → [U+6DF4]

Translingual

Han character

淳 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水卜口木 (EYRD), four-corner 3014₇, composition ⿰氵享)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 632, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17690
• Dae Jaweon: page 1035, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1658, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6DF3

Chinese

simp. and trad.		淳
alternative forms		𤂸 湻

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
弴	*tjuː, *tuːn
敦	*tuːl, *doːn, *tuːn, *tuːns
錞	*duːlʔ, *duːls, *djun
憝	*duːls
憞	*duːls
譈	*duːls
鐓	*duːls
鷻	*doːn
鶉	*doːn, *djun
惇	*tuːn, *tjun
墩	*tuːn
驐	*tuːn
燉	*tuːns, *tʰuːn, *duːn
焞	*tʰuːn, *djun
啍	*tʰuːn, *duːn
暾	*tʰuːn
噋	*tʰuːn, *kʰʷaːɡ
諄	*tjun, *tjuns
埻	*tjunʔ, *kʷaːɡ, *kʷreːɡ
稕	*tjuns
醇	*djun
淳	*djun
犉	*njun

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *djun) : semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 𦎧 ().

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chún (chun²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seon⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sûn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chún
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chún
    • Wade–Giles: chʻun²
    • Yale: chwún
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chwen
    • Palladius: чунь (čunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: seon⁴
    • Yale: sèuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soen⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: sên⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵn²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sûn
    • Tâi-lô: sûn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: suun
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sun²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sun²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sun¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sun²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sun²³/

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• Middle Chinese: dzywin

Rime
Character	淳
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	諄 (47)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	常倫切
Baxter	dzywin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑiuɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑʷin/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑjuen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑwin/
Li Rong	/ʑiuĕn/
Wang Li	/ʑĭuĕn/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʑi̯uĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chún
Expected Cantonese Reflex	seon4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]u[r]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*djun/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	淳	淳	淳
Reading #	1/5	2/5	3/5
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chún	chún	chún
Middle Chinese	‹ dzywin ›	‹ dzywin ›	‹ dzywin ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]u[r]/	/*[d]u[r]/	/*[d]u[r]/
English	a pair	simple, unadorned	ample
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	淳
Reading #	1/1
No.	2617
Phonetic component	敦
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	純
Old Chinese	/*djun/

Definitions

淳

1. (of taste) thick
2. honest
3. a surname

Compounds

• 李淳風／李淳风
• 民淳俗厚
• 淳于 (Chúnyú)
• 淳于意
• 淳于髡
• 淳化 (Chúnhuà)
• 淳化閣帖／淳化阁帖
• 淳厚 (chúnhòu)
• 淳古
• 淳和
• 淳龐／淳庞
• 淳樸／淳朴 (chúnpǔ)
• 淳河 (Chúnhé)
• 淳淳
• 淳熙
• 淳熙閣帖／淳熙阁帖
• 淳白
• 淳粹
• 淳絜
• 淳良
• 淳風／淳风
• 溫淳／温淳
• 輕淳／轻淳
• 還淳反樸／还淳反朴
• 還淳返樸／还淳返朴
• 邯鄲淳／邯郸淳
• 陳淳／陈淳

 

Japanese

Kanji

淳

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. pure

Readings

• Go-on: じゅん (jun)
• Kan-on: しゅん (shun)
• Kun: あつい (atsui, 淳い); すなお (sunao, 淳)

Proper noun

Kanji in this term
淳
あつし Jinmeiyō

Kanji in this term
淳
じゅん Jinmeiyō
on'yomi

Kanji in this term
淳
きよし Jinmeiyō

淳(あつし) or 淳(じゅん) or 淳(きよし) • (Atsushi or Jun or Kiyoshi) 

1. a male given name

Korean

Hanja

淳 • (sun, jun) (hangeul 순, 준, revised sun, jun, McCune–Reischauer sun, chun, Yale swun, cwun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

淳: Hán Nôm readings: thuần

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