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勋

xūn

meritorious deed

Phonosemantic compound. 力 represents the meaning and 员 represents the sound. Simplified form of 勛.

Components
力 meaning component

力  Meaning component

lì

  

power

员 sound component

员  Sound component

yuán

  

member

Evolution

勋 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
勋 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
勋 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
勋 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
勋 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

勋 (勛) 

xūn

meritorious deed; merits; rank; medal; merit

勋 (勲) 

xūn

variant of 勛|勋[xūn]

Most common words with 勋
Freq.
Word
Meaning

勋章

medal

勋爵

UK life peer

勋

medal

功勋

achievement

授勋

to award an honor

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.0525% of movies

2139th most common character in movies

2349th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

勛

Unicode

U+52CB


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