旬 - Dong Chinese dictionary

xún

ten-day period

Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 云 represents the sound.

Components

云 Sound component

yún

clouds

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 云 than it was in ancient scripts.

日 Meaning component

rì

sun

Evolution

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

旬

xún

ten-day period; period of time; ten days; ten years; full period

Most common words with 旬

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	中旬	middle third of a month
	旬	ten days
	下旬	last third of the month
	上旬	first third of a month
	旬日	short period

Component uses

Sound component in 12 characters (0 verified)

詢询殉筍荀絢绚徇洵峋恂郇

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*s-N-qʷi[n]	zwin	xún	ten-day cycle

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2332nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	6
Unicode	U+65EC
Shuowen	“旬，徧也。十日為旬。从勹、日。，古文。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

季旭昇《說文新證》p.715

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