jūn
unit of measure equivalent to thirty catties
Phonosemantic compound. 釒 represents the meaning and 匀 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.qʷi[n] | kjwin | jūn | weight of 30 jīn 斤 |
*C.qʷi[n] | kjwin | jūn | potter's wheel |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
2504th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+921E |
Shuowen | “鈞，三十斤也。从金，勻聲。銞，古文鈞从旬。” |
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