迅

迅

迅 U+8FC5, 迅 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8FC5 ← 迄 [U+8FC4] CJK Unified Ideographs 迆 → [U+8FC6]

Translingual

Han character

迅 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+3, 7 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 6 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 卜弓十 (YNJ), four-corner 3730₁, composition ⿺辶卂)

Derived characters

• 䭀(𩠇), 𩷰(𩾄)

References

• KangXi: page 1253, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38727
• Dae Jaweon: page 1735, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3817, character 3
• Unihan data for U+8FC5

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Chinese

trad.		迅
simp. #		迅

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 迅
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
汛	*sreːls, *siːns, *sins
軐	*siːns
卂	*sins, *tods
訊	*sins
訙	*sins
迅	*sins, *sɯns
阠	*sins, *srin, *hljins
扟	*srin
籸	*srin
蝨	*sriɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sins, *sɯns) : semantic 辶 + phonetic 卂 (OC *sins, *tods).

Etymology

Compare with Burmese မြန်ဆန် (mranhcan, “quick, speedy, prompt”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xùn (xun⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seon³
• Min Bei (KCR): sēng
• Min Dong (BUC): séng
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): sìn

  (Teochew, Peng'im): sing³

• Wu (Wiktionary): xin (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xùn
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syùn
    • Wade–Giles: hsün⁴
    • Yale: syùn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiunn
    • Palladius: сюнь (sjunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕyn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: seon³
    • Yale: seun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soen³
    • Guangdong Romanization: sên³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵn³³/
• Min Bei
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: sēng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /seiŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: séng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɛiŋ²¹³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sìn
    • Tâi-lô: sìn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sixn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɕin²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕin⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕin²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɕin¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕin²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: sing³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sìng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siŋ²¹³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: xin (T2)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕɪɲ³⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /siɪn^H/, /siuɪn^H/

Rime
Character	迅	迅
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	心 (16)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	眞 (43)	諄 (47)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	息晉切	私閏切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siɪnH/	/siuɪnH/
Pan Wuyun	/sinH/	/sʷinH/
Shao Rongfen	/sjenH/	/sjuenH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sinH/	/swinH/
Li Rong	/siĕnH/	/siuĕnH/
Wang Li	/sĭĕnH/	/sĭuĕnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯ĕnH/	/si̯uĕnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xìn	xùn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	san3	seon3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sins/, /*sɯns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	迅	迅
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	14141	14147
Phonetic component	卂	卂
Rime group	眞	文
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	信	𡺲
Old Chinese	/*sins/	/*sɯns/
Notes	卂轉註字

Definitions

迅

1. quick; rapid
2. quickly; rapidly

Compounds

迅即 (xùnjí) 迅急 (xùnjí) 迅指 迅捷 (xùnjié) 迅流 迅猛 (xùnměng)

迅疾 (xùnjí) 迅羽 迅走 迅速 (xùnsù) 迅雷 (xùnléi)

迅雷不及掩耳 (xùnléi bùjí yǎn ěr) 疾風迅雷／疾风迅雷 迅電／迅电 迅風／迅风 迅風暴雨／迅风暴雨

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Japanese

Shinjitai	迅
Kyūjitai [1]	迅󠄁 迅+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	迅󠄄 迅+󠄄? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

迅

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. swift; fast

Readings

• Go-on: しゅん (shun); しん (shin)
• Kan-on: しゅん (shun); しん (shin)
• Kan’yō-on: じん (jin, Jōyō)
• Kun: はやい (hayai, 迅い)

Compounds

• 迅速(じんそく) (jinsoku)

References

1. “迅”, in 漢字ぺディア (Kanjipedia)‎ (in Japanese), 日本漢字能力検定協会, 2015—2023

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Korean

Hanja

迅 • (sin) (hangeul 신, revised sin, McCune–Reischauer sin, Yale sin)

1. quick, hasty, rapid, sudden