醇

醇

醇 U+9187, 醇 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9187 ← 醆 [U+9186] CJK Unified Ideographs 醈 → [U+9188]

Translingual

Han character

醇 (radical 164, 酉+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 一田卜口木 (MWYRD), four-corner 1064₇, composition ⿰酉享)

References

• KangXi: page 1284, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39901
• Dae Jaweon: page 1784, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3587, character 11
• Unihan data for U+9187

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		醇

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (敦) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
弴	*tjuː, *tuːn
敦	*tuːl, *doːn, *tuːn, *tuːns
錞	*duːlʔ, *duːls, *djun
憝	*duːls
憞	*duːls
譈	*duːls
鐓	*duːls
鷻	*doːn
鶉	*doːn, *djun
惇	*tuːn, *tjun
墩	*tuːn
驐	*tuːn
燉	*tuːns, *tʰuːn, *duːn
焞	*tʰuːn, *djun
啍	*tʰuːn, *duːn
暾	*tʰuːn
噋	*tʰuːn, *kʰʷaːɡ
諄	*tjun, *tjuns
埻	*tjunʔ, *kʷaːɡ, *kʷreːɡ
稕	*tjuns
醇	*djun
淳	*djun
犉	*njun

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *djun) : semantic 酉 + phonetic 𦎧.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chún (chun²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seon⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sùn
• Min Nan (POJ): sûn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: chún
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄣˊ
    • Wade–Giles: ch'un²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chwen
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chún
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰwən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: seon⁴
    • Yale: sèuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soen⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: sên⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /sɵn²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sùn
    • Hakka Romanization System: sunˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: sun²
    • IPA: /sun¹¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sûn
    • Tâi-lô: sûn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: suun
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sun²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sun²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sun¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sun²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sun²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /d͡ʑiuɪn/▼

Rime
Character	醇
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	諄 (47)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	常倫切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑiuɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑʷin/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑjuen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑwin/
Li Rong	/ʑiuĕn/
Wang Li	/ʑĭuĕn/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʑi̯uĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chún

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*djun/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	醇
Reading #	1/1
No.	2616
Phonetic component	敦
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	純
Old Chinese	/*djun/

Definitions

醇

1. ^† (of alcoholic drink) rich; pure
2. ^† rich alcoholic drink
3. ^† Alternative form of 純／纯 (“pure”).
4. (organic chemistry) alcohol

Compounds

丁醇 (dīngchún) 丙醇 (bǐngchún) 乙醇 (yǐchún) 品行端醇 固醇 (gùchún) 大醇小疵 (dàchúnxiǎocī) 木醇 清醇 甲醇 (jiǎchún) 白藜蘆醇／白藜芦醇 (báilílúchún) 膽固醇／胆固醇 (dǎngùchún)

醇備／醇备 醇儒 醇化 醇厚 (chúnhòu) 醇和 醇朴 醇碧 醇粹 醇美 醇郁

醇酎 醇酒 (chúnjiǔ) 醇酒婦人／醇酒妇人 醇醨 醇醪 醇醲 醇類／醇类 (chúnlèi) 類固醇／类固醇 (lèigùchún) 飲醇自醉／饮醇自醉 香醇 (xiāngchún)

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Japanese

Kanji

醇

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. rich wine

Readings

• Go-on: じゅん (jun)
• Kan-on: しゅん (shun)

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Korean

Hanja

醇 • (sun) (hangeul 순, revised sun, McCune–Reischauer sun, Yale swun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

醇 (thuần)

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