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準

zhǔn

accurate

Original meaning: 

water-level

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 隼 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "water-level", a tool to check the flatness of surfaces. The meaning later shifted to "accurate", "rule", and "approve".

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

隼 sound component

隼  Sound component

sǔn

  

falcon

Evolution

準 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
準 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
準 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

准 (準) 

zhǔn

rule, guideline, standard; accurate; standard; definitely; certainly; about to become (bride, son-in-law etc); quasi-; para-

Most common words with 準
Freq.
Word
Meaning

准备

preparation

标准

norm

准

accurate

批准

to approve

准确

accurate

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*turʔ

tsywinX

zhǔn

water-level


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 92.3915% of movies

261st most common character in movies

379th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

准

Unicode

U+6E96

Shuowen

“準，平也。从水，隼聲。”


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