See also:
U+8822, 蠢
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8822

[U+8821]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+8823]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 142, +15, 21 strokes, cangjie input 手大日中戈 (QKALI), four-corner 50136, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 1101, character 44
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33797
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1565, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2901, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+8822

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tuːnʔ
*rduːn, *duːn, *tun
*donʔ, *duːn, *duːnʔ
*tuːnʔ, *tjuns
*tuːns
*tuːns
*tʰuːn, *tʰuːnʔ
*tʰuːnʔ
*duːn, *tun
*duːn
*duːn
*duːn
*duːn
*duːn, *stʰuːn
*duːn
*duːn
*duːn, *duːnʔ
*duːnʔ
*tun
*tʰun
*tʰun
椿 *tʰun
*tʰunʔ, *tʰjunʔ
*tjun
*tjun, *tjuns
*tjunʔ, *djun
*tʰjun
*tʰjunʔ
*tʰjunʔ
*tʰjunʔ
*djun
*hljunʔ
*hljuns

Pronunciation


Note:
  • chhún - literary;
  • thún - vernacular.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (24)
Final () (47)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕʰiuɪnX/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕʰʷinX/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕʰjuenX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/cʰwinX/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕʰiuĕnX/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕʰĭuĕnX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕʰi̯uĕnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
chǔn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 12574
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tʰjunʔ/

Definitions

  1. to squirm; to wriggle
  2. stupid; foolish
  3. clumsy; awkward

Compounds

  • 蠢材 (chǔncái)
  • 蠢東西蠢东西
  • 蠢漢蠢汉
  • 蠢物
  • 蠢笨 (chǔnbèn)
  • 蠢若木雞蠢若木鸡

See also

  • (shǎ, “foolish”)

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. squirm, wriggle

Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(jun) (hangeul , revised jun, McCuneReischauer chun, Yale cwun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(xuẩn, xoẳn, xoáy)

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