舜

舜 U+821C, 舜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-821C ← 舛 [U+821B] CJK Unified Ideographs 舝 → [U+821D]

Translingual

Han character

舜 (Kangxi radical 136, 舛+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 月月弓手 (BBNQ), four-corner 2025₂, composition ⿳爫冖舛)

Derived characters

• 僢, 𫫰, 𡡞, 䢬, 𣊬, 橓, 𬋊, 𤩥, 瞬, 𬧓, 𤯷, 𦨁, 䑟, 䴄, 蕣

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1008, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30339
• Dae Jaweon: page 1465, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2035, character 2
• Unihan data for U+821C

Chinese

trad.		舜
simp. #		舜
alternative forms		䑞 𡐼 ancient 𡐩 ancient 𡳈 ancient 𡳉 ancient

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
舛	*tʰjonʔ
荈	*tʰjonʔ
僢	*l̥ʰjunʔ
舜	*hljuns
瞬	*hljuns
蕣	*hljuns

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shùn (shun⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seon³
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): sun

  (Meixian, Guangdong): sun⁴

• Eastern Min (BUC): sóng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sùn

  (Teochew, Peng'im): sung³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shùn
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shùn
    • Wade–Giles: shun⁴
    • Yale: shwùn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuenn
    • Palladius: шунь (šunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯ən⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: seon³
    • Yale: seun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soen³
    • Guangdong Romanization: sên³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵn³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sun
    • Hakka Romanization System: sun
    • Hagfa Pinyim: sun⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /sun⁵⁵/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: sun⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /sun⁵³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: sóng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /souŋ²¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Jinjiang, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sùn
    • Tâi-lô: sùn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: suxn
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang): /sun⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sun¹¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung): /sun²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: sung³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sùng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /suŋ²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: sywinH

Rime
Character	舜
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	諄 (47)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	舒閏切
Baxter	sywinH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕiuɪnH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕʷinH/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕjuenH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕwinH/
Li Rong	/ɕiuĕnH/
Wang Li	/ɕĭuĕnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɕi̯uĕnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shùn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	seon3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[s.t]u[n]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hljuns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	舜
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shùn
Middle Chinese	‹ sywinH ›
Old Chinese	/*[s.t]u[n]-s/
English	Hibiscus
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	舜
Reading #	1/1
No.	1643
Phonetic component	舛
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	舜
Old Chinese	/*hljuns/

Definitions

舜

1. Emperor Shun, legendary ruler of ancient China
2. (alt. form 蕣) Hibiscus syriacus

   Synonym: 木槿 (mùjǐn)

3. a surname

Compounds

• 堯天舜日／尧天舜日
• 堯年舜日／尧年舜日
• 堯舜／尧舜 (Yáo-Shùn)
• 堯趨舜步／尧趋舜步
• 大舜
• 女中堯舜／女中尧舜
• 熱熟堯舜／热熟尧舜
• 祖舜宗堯／祖舜宗尧
• 禹行舜趨／禹行舜趋
• 舜弦
• 舜日堯天／舜日尧天
• 舜日堯年／舜日尧年
• 舜犬
• 舜琴
• 舜禹
• 舜英
• 舜華／舜华
• 舜跖
• 舜陵 (Shùnlíng)
• 舜韶
• 舜顏／舜颜
• 虞舜

 

Japanese

Kanji

舜

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しゅん (shun)
• Kun: むくげ (mukuge, 舜); ひるがお (hirugao); さとい (satoi)

Korean

Hanja

舜 • (sun) (hangeul 순, revised sun, McCune–Reischauer sun, Yale swun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

舜: Hán Nôm readings: thuấn

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