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郡

jùn

administrative division

Phonosemantic compound. 阝 represents the meaning and 君 represents the sound.

Components
阝 meaning component

阝  Meaning component

fù

  

hill, place

阝 is a component form of 阜.

君 sound component

君  Sound component

jūn

  

ruler

Evolution

郡 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
郡 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

郡  

jùn

administrative division; canton; county; region

Most common words with 郡
Freq.
Word
Meaning

郡

canton

约克郡

Yorkshire (English region)

林肯郡

Lincolnshire (English county)

格洛斯特郡

Gloucestershire county in southwest England

威尔特郡

Wiltshire (English county)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ur-s

gjunH

jùn

district


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.2561% of movies

2002nd most common character in movies

2289th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+90E1

Shuowen

“郡，周制，天子地方千里，分為百縣，縣有四郡。故《春秋傳》曰：‘上大夫受郡’是也。至秦初，置三十六郡以監其縣。从邑，君聲。”


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