xūn
meritorious deed
Phonosemantic compound. 力 represents the meaning and 員 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernStatistics
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 | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+52DB |
Shuowen | “勳,能成王功也。从力,熏聲。勛,古文勳从員。” |
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