# 淳

| 淳 | U+6DF3, &#28147; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6DF3 |
| ← 淲 [U+6DF2] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 淴 → [U+6DF4] |

## Translingual
### Han character

淳 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水卜口木 (EYRD), four-corner 3014$_7$, composition ⿰氵享)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 632, character 5
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17690
* Dae Jaweon: page 1035, character 1
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1658, character 1
* Unihan data for U+6DF3

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | 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／形声, OC *djun) : semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 𦎧.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): chún (chun$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄣˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): seon$^4$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sûn
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: chún
*** Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄣˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: chún
*** Wade–Giles: chʻun$^2$
*** Yale: chwún
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chwen
*** Palladius: чунь (čunʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ən³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: seon$^4$
*** Yale: sèuhn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: soen$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: sên$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /sɵn²¹/
* 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/
* Middle Chinese: dzywin
Rime :
| Character | 淳 |
| 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 |
| Baxter | dzywin |
| 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 |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | seon$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]u[r]/
    (Zhengzhang): /*djun/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 淳 | 淳 | 淳 |
| Reading # | 1/5 | 2/5 | 3/5 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | chún | chún | chún |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ dzywin › | ‹ dzywin › | ‹ dzywin › |
| Old Chinese | /*[d]u[r]/ | /*[d]u[r]/ | /*[d]u[r]/ |
| English | a pair | simple, unadorned | ample |
| 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 | 淳 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 2617 |
| Phonetic component | 敦 |
| Rime group | 文 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 純 |
| Old Chinese | /*djun/ |

### Definitions

淳
* (of taste) thick
* honest
* a surname

#### Compounds

* 李淳風／李淳风
* 民淳俗厚
* 淳于 (Chúnyú)
* 淳于意
* 淳于髡
* 淳化 (Chúnhuà)
* 淳化閣帖／淳化阁帖
* 淳厚 (chúnhòu)
* 淳古
* 淳和
* 淳龐／淳庞
* 淳樸／淳朴 (chúnpǔ)
* 淳河 (Chúnhé)
* 淳淳
* 淳熙
* 淳熙閣帖／淳熙阁帖
* 淳白
* 淳粹
* 淳絜
* 淳良
* 淳風／淳风
* 溫淳／温淳
* 輕淳／轻淳
* 還淳反樸／还淳反朴
* 還淳返樸／还淳返朴
* 邯鄲淳／邯郸淳
* 陳淳／陈淳

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Jinmeiyō kanji)
* pure

#### Readings

* Go-on: じゅん (jun)
* Kan-on: しゅん (shun)
* Kun: あつい (atsui, 淳い)、すなお (sunao, 淳)

### Proper noun

* Kanji in this term
* 淳
* あつし Jinmeiyō
* Kanji in this term
* 淳
* じゅん Jinmeiyō
* on'yomi
* Kanji in this term
* 淳
* きよし Jinmeiyō
淳(あつし) or 淳(じゅん) or 淳(きよし) • (Atsushi or Jun or Kiyoshi)
* a male given name

## Korean
### Hanja

淳 • (sun, jun) (hangeul 순, 준, revised sun, jun, McCune–Reischauer sun, chun, Yale swun, cwun)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

淳: Hán Nôm readings: thuần
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