chún
pure
Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 屯 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[d]u[n] | dzywin | chún | pure, unmixed |
*[d]u[n] | dzywin | chún | silken |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 23.2741% of movies
1450th most common character in movies
1125th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7D14 |
Shuowen | “純,絲也。从糸,屯聲。《論語》曰:‘今也純儉。’” |
Sources
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