xún
patrol
To walk 辶 by the river 巛; 巛 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 巡
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to patrol (police, army or navy) | ||
to patrol | ||
to roam | ||
police officer | ||
to be on tour |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[sə.l]u[n] | zwin | xún | perambulate |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 16.2102% of movies
1533rd most common character in movies
1544th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+5DE1 |
Shuowen | “巡,延行皃。从辵,川聲。” |
Sources
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