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纯

chún

pure

Phonosemantic compound. 纟 represents the meaning and 屯 represents the sound. Simplified form of 純.

Components
纟 meaning component

纟  Meaning component

mì, sī

  

silk

纟 is a component form of 糸.

屯 sound component

屯  Sound component

tún, zhūn

  

village

Evolution

纯 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
纯 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
纯 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
纯 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
纯 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

纯 (純) 

chún

pure, clean, simple; pure; simple; unmixed; genuine

Most common words with 纯
Freq.
Word
Meaning

纯

pure

单纯

simple

纯粹

pure

纯洁

pure

纯属

to be purely

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

莼

Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 23.2741% of movies

1450th most common character in movies

1125th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

純

Unicode

U+7EAF


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