遵

遵 U+9075, 遵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9075 ← 遴 [U+9074] CJK Unified Ideographs 遶 → [U+9076]

Translingual

Han character

遵 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+12, 16 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 15 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 卜廿田戈 (YTWI), four-corner 3830₄, composition ⿺辶尊)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1264, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39118
• Dae Jaweon: page 1760, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3885, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9075

Chinese

trad.		遵
simp. #		遵
alternative forms		𢕰 𣦝

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
尊	*ʔsuːn
樽	*ʔsuːn
罇	*ʔsuːn
嶟	*ʔsuːn, *ʔsun
繜	*ʔsuːn
撙	*ʔsuːnʔ
噂	*ʔsuːnʔ
譐	*ʔsuːnʔ
僔	*ʔsuːnʔ
蹲	*zuːn
鱒	*zuːnʔ, *zuːns
鐏	*zuːns
遵	*ʔsun
鷷	*ʔsun, *zun
墫	*sʰun
竴	*sʰun

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔsun) : semantic 辵 (“walk”) + phonetic 尊 (OC *ʔsuːn).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zūn (zun¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄨㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zeon¹, zyun¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chûn
• Northern Min (KCR): có̤ng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chun

  (Teochew, Peng'im): zung¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zūn
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄨㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zun
    • Wade–Giles: tsun¹
    • Yale: dzwūn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzuen
    • Palladius: цзунь (czunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡su̯ən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zeon¹, zyun¹
    • Yale: jēun, jyūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzoen¹, dzyn¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zên¹, jun¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɵn⁵⁵/, /t͡syːn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chûn
    • Hakka Romanization System: zun´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zun¹
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sun²⁴/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: có̤ng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɔŋ⁵⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chun
    • Tâi-lô: tsun
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zwn
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sun⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sun³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: zung¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsung
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡suŋ³³/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 遵
Mandarin	Beijing	/t͡suən⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/t͡suən⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/t͡suən²¹/
	Jinan	/t͡suẽ²¹³/
	Qingdao	/t͡suə̃²¹³/
	Zhengzhou	/t͡suən²⁴/
	Xi'an	/t͡suẽ²¹/
	Xining	/t͡suə̃⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/t͡suŋ⁴⁴/
	Lanzhou	/t͡sũn³¹/
	Ürümqi	/t͡suŋ⁴⁴/
	Wuhan	/t͡sən⁵⁵/
	Chengdu	/t͡sən⁵⁵/
	Guiyang	/t͡sen⁵⁵/
	Kunming	/t͡suə̃⁴⁴/
	Nanjing	/t͡sun³¹/
	Hefei	/t͡sən²¹/
Jin	Taiyuan	/t͡suəŋ¹¹/
	Pingyao	/t͡suŋ¹³/
	Hohhot	/t͡sũŋ³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/t͡səŋ⁵³/
	Suzhou	/t͡sən⁵⁵/
	Hangzhou	/t͡sz̩ʷen³³/
	Wenzhou	/t͡ɕoŋ³³/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡sʌ̃³¹/
	Tunxi	/t͡suːə¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/t͡sən³³/
	Xiangtan	/t͡sən³³/
Gan	Nanchang	/t͡sun⁴²/
Hakka	Meixian	/t͡sun⁴⁴/
	Taoyuan	/t͡sun²⁴/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/t͡søn⁵³/
	Nanning	/t͡syn⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/t͡søn⁵⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/t͡sun⁵⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/t͡souŋ⁴⁴/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/t͡sɔŋ⁵⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/t͡suŋ³³/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/t͡sun²³/

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• Middle Chinese: tswin

Rime
Character	遵
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	諄 (47)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	將倫切
Baxter	tswin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡siuɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʷin/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sjuen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡swin/
Li Rong	/t͡siuĕn/
Wang Li	/t͡sĭuĕn/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡si̯uĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jūn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zeon1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts]u[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsun/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	遵
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zūn
Middle Chinese	‹ tswin ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]u[n]/
English	follow (a road)
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	遵
Reading #	1/1
No.	17997
Phonetic component	尊
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	遵
Old Chinese	/*ʔsun/

Definitions

遵

1. to follow; to go along
2. to obey; to comply with

Compounds

• 不遵 (bùzūn)
• 凜遵／凛遵 (lǐn zūn)
• 恪遵
• 欽此欽遵／钦此钦遵
• 祗遵
• 祭遵布被
• 遵命 (zūnmìng)
• 遵大路
• 遵奉 (zūnfèng)
• 遵守 (zūnshǒu)
• 遵從／遵从 (zūncóng)
• 遵循 (zūnxún)
• 遵時養晦／遵时养晦
• 遵照 (zūnzhào)
• 遵紬／遵绸
• 遵而不失
• 遵行 (zūnxíng)
• 遵辦／遵办
• 遵養時晦／遵养时晦
• 陳遵投轄／陈遵投辖
• 飭遵／饬遵

 

Japanese

Shinjitai	遵
Kyūjitai	遵󠄁 遵+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	遵󠄅 遵+󠄅? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

遵

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. abide by, obey, follow

Readings

• Go-on: しゅん (shun)
• Kan-on: しゅん (shun)
• Kan’yō-on: じゅん (jun, Jōyō)
• Kun: したがう (shitagau, 遵う); ひきいる (hikiiru, 遵いる)
• Nanori: ちか (chika); のぶ (nobu); ゆき (yuki); より (yori)

Korean

Hanja

遵 • (jun) (hangeul 준, revised jun, McCune–Reischauer chun, Yale cwun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

遵: Hán Nôm readings: tuân

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