荀

荀 U 8340, 荀 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8340 ← 茿 [U 833F] CJK Unified Ideographs 荁 → [U 8341]

Translingual

Han character

荀 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸 6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿心日 (TPA), four-corner 4462₇, composition ⿱艹旬)

Derived characters

• 槆, 㨚, 䜦, 𡟱, 𦃜, 𦳣, 𫺰

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1029, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30929
• Dae Jaweon: page 1488, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3207, character 8
• Unihan data for U 8340

Chinese

trad.		荀
simp. #		荀

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 荀
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
枃	*skins
笉	*skʰinʔ
郇	*ɡʷreːn, *sqʰʷin
絢	*qʰʷiːns
眴	*qʰʷiːns, *ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷin, *qʰʷjins, *ŋʷjin
盷	*ɡʷiːn
訇	*ɡʷiːn, *qʰʷreːŋ
迿	*ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷins
姰	*ɡʷiːns, *sqʰʷin
畇	*l'iːŋ, *sqʰʷin, *sɢʷin, *ɢʷin
荀	*sqʰʷin
詢	*sqʰʷin
洵	*sqʰʷin, *sɢʷin
恂	*sqʰʷin
峋	*sqʰʷin
珣	*sqʰʷin
槆	*sqʰʷin
筍	*sqʰʷinʔ
箰	*sqʰʷinʔ
旬	*sɢʷin
殉	*sɢʷins
徇	*sɢʷins
侚	*sɢʷins
均	*kʷin
鈞	*kʷin
袀	*kʷin
汮	*kʷin, *kʷrin
呁	*kʷins
筠	*ɡʷin
荺	*ɢʷin, *ɡʷinʔ
匀	*ɢʷin
韵	*ɢʷins
輷	*qʰʷreːŋ, *qʰʷreːŋs
揈	*qʰʷreːŋ
鍧	*qʰʷreːŋ
渹	*qʰʷreːŋ
赹	*ɡʷeŋ
憌	*ɡʷeŋ
惸	*ɡʷeŋ
咰	*sqʰʷrid

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xún (xun²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seon¹
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): song¹ / suong¹ / song² / suong²
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sûn

  (Teochew, Peng'im): sung⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xún
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syún
    • Wade–Giles: hsün²
    • Yale: syún
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyun
    • Palladius: сюнь (sjunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕyn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: seon¹
    • Yale: sēun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soen¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sên¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵn⁵⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: song¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬɔŋ⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: suong¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬuoŋ⁵³³/
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: song²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬɔŋ¹³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: suong²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬuoŋ¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (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/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: sung⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sûng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /suŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: swin

Rime
Character	荀
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	諄 (47)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	相倫切
Baxter	swin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siuɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/sʷin/
Shao Rongfen	/sjuen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/swin/
Li Rong	/siuĕn/
Wang Li	/sĭuĕn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/si̯uĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xūn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	seon1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s.qʷi[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sqʰʷin/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	荀
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xún
Middle Chinese	‹ swin ›
Old Chinese	/*s.qʷi[n]/
English	spec. of plant; (proper name]
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	荀
Reading #	1/1
No.	16382
Phonetic component	匀
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	荀
Old Chinese	/*sqʰʷin/

Definitions

荀

1. a surname
2. (historical) name of an ancient state in China
3. (obsolete) name of a plant

   • 有草焉，其狀如葌，而方莖黃華赤實，其本如稿本，名曰荀草，服之美人色。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     有草焉，其状如葌，而方茎黄华赤实，其本如稿本，名曰荀草，服之美人色。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Mountains and Seas

     Yǒu cǎo yān, qí zhuàng rú jiān, ér fāng jīng huáng huá chì shí, qí běn rú gǎo běn, míng yuē xúncǎo, fú zhī měi rén sè. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Compounds

• 孟荀 (Mèng-Xún)
• 荀令香
• 荀卿 (Xúnqīng)
• 荀子 (Xúnzǐ)
• 荀派
• 荀粲熨婦／荀粲熨妇

 

References

• 莆田县县志編輯委員会 [Putian County Chronicle Editorial Committee], editor (1964), 莆田方言志（語音編） [Chronicle of Putian Dialect (Volume of Phonetics)] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min).
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “荀”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 272.

Japanese

Kanji

荀

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

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

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

荀: Hán Nôm readings: tuân

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