峻

峻	U+5CFB, 峻 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5CFB

← 峺
[U+5CFA]

CJK Unified Ideographs

峼 →
[U+5CFC]

Translingual

Han character

峻 (Kangxi radical 46, 山+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 山戈金水 (UICE), four-corner 2374₇, composition ⿰山夋)

References

KangXi: page 312, character 12

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8116

Dae Jaweon: page 612, character 17

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 776, character 16

Unihan data for U+5CFB

Chinese

trad.		峻
simp. ^#		峻

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (允) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
唆	*sloːl
梭	*sloːl
葰	sloːlʔ, sroːlʔ, *slul
誜	*sroːls
朘	*ʔslon
捘	ʔsluːls, ʔsluːns, *sʰlun
荾	*slul
酸	*sloːn
狻	*sloːn
痠	*sloːn
鋑	*ʔslon
脧	*ʔsluːl
悛	*sʰlon
吮	zlonʔ, ɦljunʔ
萒	ɡronʔ, lonʔ
沇	*lonʔ
抁	*lonʔ
馻	lonʔ, lunʔ
兖	*lonʔ
渷	*lonʔ
兗	*lonʔ
焌	ʔsluːns, ʔsluns, *sʰlud
允	*lunʔ
狁	*lunʔ
玧	*lunʔ
俊	*ʔsluns
晙	ʔsluns, sluns
餕	*ʔsluns
畯	*ʔsluns
駿	*ʔsluns
竣	*sʰlun
皴	*sʰlun
逡	*sʰlun
踆	*sʰlun
夋	*sʰlun
埈	*sluns
陖	*sluns
鵕	*sluns
浚	*sluns
峻	*sluns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sluns) : semantic 山 (“mountain”) + phonetic 夋 (OC *sʰlun).

Etymology

Compare with Burmese သွန်းသွန်း (swan:swan:, “toweringly, exaltingly”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jùn (jun⁴)
(Zhuyin): ㄐㄩㄣˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zeon³
Min Nan (POJ): chùn

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: jùn
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄣˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jyùn
  - Wade–Giles: chün⁴
  - Yale: jyùn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiunn
  - Palladius: цзюнь (czjunʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕyn⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: zeon³
  - Yale: jeun
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzoen³
  - Guangdong Romanization: zên³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃɵn³³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chùn
  - Tâi-lô: tsùn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zuxn
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sun²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sun⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sun²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡sun¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sun²¹/

Middle Chinese: /siuɪn^H/

Rime
Character	峻
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	諄 (47)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	私閏切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siuɪn^H/
Pan Wuyun	/sʷin^H/
Shao Rongfen	/sjuen^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/swin^H/
Li Rong	/siuĕn^H/
Wang Li	/sĭuĕn^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯uĕn^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xùn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	seon³

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*sluns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	峻
Reading #	1/1
No.	16473
Phonetic component	允
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	𡺲
Old Chinese	/*sluns/

Definitions

峻

(of mountains) high; steep; towering
harsh; severe

Compounds

冷峻
切峻
哈拉峻 (Hālājùn)
峭峻
峻切
峻刻
峻原
峻命 (jùnmìng)
峻宇
峻密
峻峭 (jùnqiào)
峻崖
峻德
峻急
峻拒
峻挺

峻法 (jùnfǎ)
峻滑
峻爵
峻直
峻秩
峻酷
峻阪
嵩峻
嶒峻
巉峻 (chánjùn)
清曹峻府
陡峻
隆刑峻法
高峻 (gāojùn)
嚴刑峻法／严刑峻法 (yánxíngjùnfǎ)
嚴峻／严峻 (yánjùn)

峻厲／峻厉
峻嶺／峻岭 (jùnlǐng)
峻嶺崇山／峻岭崇山
峻極／峻极
峻筆／峻笔
峻節／峻节
峻論／峻论
峻阪鹽車／峻阪盐车
崇山峻嶺／崇山峻岭 (chóngshānjùnlǐng)
嶮峻／崄峻
巔崖峻谷／巅崖峻谷
清風峻節／清风峻节
險峻／险峻 (xiǎnjùn)
風骨峭峻／风骨峭峻
高山峻嶺／高山峻岭
高風峻節／高风峻节

Japanese

Kanji

峻

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

(of a mountain) high; steep

Readings

On (unclassified): しゅん (shun)
Kun: たかい (takai); けわしい (kewashī)

Compounds

峻拒(しゅんきょ) (shunkyo)
峻険(しゅんけん), 峻嶮(しゅんけん) (shunken)
峻厳(しゅんげん) (shungen)
峻酷(しゅんこく), 峻刻(しゅんこく) (shunkoku)
峻峭(しゅんしょう) (shunshō)
峻別(しゅんべつ) (shunbetsu)
峻峰(しゅんぽう) (shunpō)
峻嶺(しゅんれい) (shunrei)
峻烈(しゅんれつ) (shunretsu)
急峻(きゅうしゅん) (kyūshun)
険峻(けんしゅん), 嶮峻(けんしゅん), 剣峻(けんしゅん) (kenshun)
峻下剤(しゅんげざい) (shungezai)

Proper noun

峻(しゅん) • (Shun)

a male given name

峻(たかし) • (Takashi)

a male given name

Korean

Hanja

峻 • (jun) (hangeul 준, revised jun, McCune–Reischauer chun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

峻: Hán Nôm readings: tuấn

a male given name