遵

遵	U+9075, 遵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9075

← 遴
[U+9074]

CJK Unified Ideographs

遶 →
[U+9076]

Translingual

Han character

遵 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+12, 16 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 15 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 卜廿田戈 (YTWI), four-corner 3830₄, composition ⿺辶尊)

References

KangXi: page 1264, character 26

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39118

Dae Jaweon: page 1760, character 25

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3885, character 1

Unihan data for U+9075

Chinese

trad.		遵
simp. ^#		遵

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
尊	*ʔsuːn
樽	*ʔsuːn
罇	*ʔsuːn
嶟	ʔsuːn, ʔsun
繜	*ʔsuːn
撙	*ʔsuːnʔ
噂	*ʔsuːnʔ
譐	*ʔsuːnʔ
僔	*ʔsuːnʔ
蹲	*zuːn
鱒	zuːnʔ, zuːns
鐏	*zuːns
遵	*ʔsun
鷷	ʔsun, zun
墫	*sʰun
竴	*sʰun

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔsun) : semantic 辵 (“walk”) + phonetic 尊 (OC *ʔsuːn).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zūn (zun¹)
(Zhuyin): ㄗㄨㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zeon¹, zyun¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chûn
Min Bei (KCR): có̤ng
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): chun
(Teochew, Peng'im): zung¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zūn
  - Zhuyin: ㄗㄨㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: zun
  - Wade–Giles: tsun¹
  - Yale: dzwūn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzuen
  - Palladius: цзунь (czunʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡swən⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: zeon¹, zyun¹
  - Yale: jēun, jyūn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzoen¹, dzyn¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: zên¹, jun¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃɵn⁵⁵/, /t͡ʃyːn⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chûn
  - Hakka Romanization System: zun´
  - Hagfa Pinyim: zun¹
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sun²⁴/
Min Bei
- (Jian'ou)
  - Kienning Colloquial Romanized: có̤ng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɔŋ⁵⁴/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chun
  - Tâi-lô: tsun
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zwn
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sun⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sun³³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: zung¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsung
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡suŋ³³/

Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 遵
Mandarin	Beijing	/t͡suən⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/t͡suən⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/t͡suən²¹/
	Jinan	/t͡suẽ²¹³/
	Qingdao	/t͡suə̃²¹³/
	Zhengzhou	/t͡suən²⁴/
	Xi'an	/t͡suẽ²¹/
	Xining	/t͡suə̃⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/t͡suŋ⁴⁴/
	Lanzhou	/t͡sũn³¹/
	Ürümqi	/t͡suŋ⁴⁴/
	Wuhan	/t͡sən⁵⁵/
	Chengdu	/t͡sən⁵⁵/
	Guiyang	/t͡sen⁵⁵/
	Kunming	/t͡suə̃⁴⁴/
	Nanjing	/t͡sun³¹/
	Hefei	/t͡sən²¹/
Jin	Taiyuan	/t͡suəŋ¹¹/
	Pingyao	/t͡suŋ¹³/
	Hohhot	/t͡sũŋ³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/t͡səŋ⁵³/
	Suzhou	/t͡sən⁵⁵/
	Hangzhou	/t͡sz̩ʷen³³/
	Wenzhou	/t͡ɕoŋ³³/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡sʌ̃³¹/
Hui	Tunxi	/t͡suːə¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/t͡sən³³/
Xiang	Xiangtan	/t͡sən³³/
Gan	Nanchang	/t͡sun⁴²/
Hakka	Meixian	/t͡sun⁴⁴/
Hakka	Taoyuan	/t͡sun²⁴/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/t͡søn⁵³/
	Nanning	/t͡syn⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/t͡søn⁵⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/t͡sun⁵⁵/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/t͡souŋ⁴⁴/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/t͡sɔŋ⁵⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/t͡suŋ³³/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/t͡sun²³/

Middle Chinese: /t͡siuɪn/

Rime
Character	遵
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	諄 (47)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	將倫切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡siuɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʷin/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sjuen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡swin/
Li Rong	/t͡siuĕn/
Wang Li	/t͡sĭuĕn/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡si̯uĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jūn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zeon¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts]u[n]/
(Zhengzhang): /*ʔsun/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	遵
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zūn
Middle Chinese	‹ tswin ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]u[n]/
English	follow (a road)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	遵
Reading #	1/1
No.	17997
Phonetic component	尊
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	遵
Old Chinese	/*ʔsun/

Definitions

遵

to follow; to go along
to obey; to comply with

Compounds

不遵 (bùzūn)
恪遵
祗遵
祭遵布被
遵命 (zūnmìng)
遵大路
遵奉 (zūnfèng)

遵守 (zūnshǒu)
遵循 (zūnxún)
遵照 (zūnzhào)
遵而不失
遵行 (zūnxíng)
凜遵／凛遵 (lǐn zūn)
欽此欽遵／钦此钦遵

遵從／遵从 (zūncóng)
遵時養晦／遵时养晦
遵紬／遵绸
遵辦／遵办
遵養時晦／遵养时晦
陳遵投轄／陈遵投辖
飭遵／饬遵

Japanese

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

遵

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

abide by, obey, follow

Readings

Go-on: しゅん (shun)
Kan-on: しゅん (shun)
Kan’yō-on: じゅん (jun, Jōyō)
Kun: したがう (shitagau, 遵う); ひきいる (hikiiru, 遵いる)
Nanori: ちか (chika); のぶ (nobu); ゆき (yuki); より (yori)

References

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

Korean

Hanja

遵 • (jun) (hangeul 준, revised jun, McCune–Reischauer chun, Yale cwun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

遵: Hán Nôm readings: tuân

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