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均

jūn

equal

Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 勻 represents the sound.

Components
土 meaning component

土  Meaning component

tǔ

  

earth

勻 sound,meaning component

勻  Sound Meaning component

yún

  

equal

Evolution

均 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
均 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
均 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

均  

jūn

equal, even, fair; all, also; equal; even; all; uniform

Most common words with 均
Freq.
Word
Meaning

均

equal

平均

average

均匀

even

人均

per capita

均衡

equal

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

筠

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.qʷi[n]

kjwin

jūn

even, equal

*[m-qʷ]<r>i[n]-s (no pre-Qín exx.)

hwinH

yùn

rhyme


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 9.4826% of movies

2113th most common character in movies

903rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+5747

Shuowen

“均，平，徧也。从土，从勻，勻亦聲。”


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