xùn
teach, train
Phonosemantic compound. 讠 represents the meaning and 川 represents the sound. Simplified form of 訓.
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*l̥u[n]-s (W dialect: *l̥- > x- ) | xjunH | xùn | instruct |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 36.1685% of movies
977th most common character in movies
1022nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+8BAD |
Sources
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