qún

skirt

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
衤 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

clothes

is a component form of .

君 sound component

  Sound component

jūn

  

ruler

Evolution

裙 Bronze script Warring States (475-221 BC)

Bronze script

Warring States (475-221 BC)
裙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
裙 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

qún

skirt, apron, petticoat; skirt; CL:|[tiáo]

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qún

old variant of [qún]

Most common words with 裙
Freq.
Word
Meaning

裙子

skirt

skirt

围裙

apron

连衣裙

frock

迷你裙

miniskirt

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]u[r]

gjun

qún

skirt


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 14.4161% of movies

1577th most common character in movies

2431st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+88D9

Shuowen

“帬,下裳也。帬或从衣。”


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