jùn
high
Phonosemantic compound. 山 represents the meaning and 夋 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 峻
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
grim | ||
arduous | ||
grave and stern | ||
harsh or severe | ||
towering mountains and precipitous ridges (idiom) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.5858% of movies
3205th most common character in movies
2506th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+5CFB |
Shuowen | “，高也。从山，陖聲。峻，或省。” |
Sources
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