zūn
obey
To follow 辶 or honor 尊 someone; 尊 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 遵
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to comply with | ||
to follow | ||
to do as you bid | ||
in accordance with | ||
to comply with |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ts]u[n] | tswin | zūn | follow (a road) |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 17.7959% of movies
1657th most common character in movies
1593rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+9075 |
Shuowen | “遵，循也。从辵，尊聲。” |
Sources
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