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晕

yūn, yùn

halo in sky, dizzy

Simplified form of 暈. Depicts thin clouds surrounding the sun (日). The thin clouds were later replaced by the phonetic component 军. The meaning later shifted to "dizzy" and "faint".

Components
日 iconic component

日  Iconic component

rì

  

sun

Depicts the sun.

军 sound component

军  Sound component

jūn

  

army

Evolution

晕 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
晕 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
晕 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
晕 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

晕 (暈) 

yūn

halo in sky; fog; dizzy, faint; confused; dizzy; giddy; to faint; to swoon; to lose consciousness; to pass out

晕 (暈) 

yùn

halo; ring around moon or sun

Most common words with 晕
Freq.
Word
Meaning

晕

dizzy

头晕

dizzy

晕倒

to faint

眩晕

vertigo

晕头转向

confused and disoriented

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 18.6128% of movies

1615th most common character in movies

2215th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

暈

Unicode

U+6655


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