駿

jùn

excellent horse

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
馬 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

horse

夋 sound component

  Sound component

qūn

  

to dawdle

Evolution

駿 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
駿 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
駿 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

(駿) 

jùn

excellent horse, noble steed; spirited horse

Most common words with 駿
Freq.
Word
Meaning

spirited horse

骏马

steed

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts]ur-s

tswinH

jùn

fine horse


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3273rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

Unicode

U+99FF

Shuowen

“駿,馬之良材者。从馬,夋聲。”


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