xùn
humble
Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 孫 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 遜
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
modest | ||
Johnson or Johnston (name) | ||
Jackson (name) | ||
inferior (often in the combination 毫無遜色|毫无逊色, not in the least inferior) | ||
Amazon |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 12.5260% of movies
1483rd most common character in movies
1697th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+905C |
Shuowen | “遜，遁也。从辵，孫聲。” |
Sources
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