# 迅

| 迅 | U+8FC5, &#36805; 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 3730$_1$, composition ⿺辶卂)

#### Derived characters

* 䭀(𩠇), 𩷰(𩾄)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: 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

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 迅
* Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
* Small seal script
| | 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 / 形声, OC *sins, *sɯns): semantic 辶 + phonetic 卂 (OC *sins, *tods).

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): xùn (xun$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄣˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): seon$^3$
* Northern Min (KCR): sēng
* Eastern Min (BUC): séng
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sing$^4$ / syng$^4$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): sìn
    (Teochew, Peng'im): sing$^3$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^5$shin
* Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): sin$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xùn
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄣˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: syùn
*** Wade–Giles: hsün$^4$
*** Yale: syùn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiunn
*** Palladius: сюнь (sjunʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕyn⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: seon$^3$
*** Yale: seun
*** Cantonese Pinyin: soen$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: sên$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /sɵn³³/
* Northern Min
** (Jian'ou)
*** Kienning Colloquial Romanized: sēng
*** Sinological IPA : /seiŋ⁵⁵/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: séng
*** Sinological IPA : /sɛiŋ²¹³/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: sing$^4$
*** Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: si̍ng
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬiŋ⁴²/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: syng$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɬyŋ⁴²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sìn
*** Tâi-lô: sìn
*** Phofsit Daibuun: sixn
*** IPA (Xiamen): /sin²¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /sin⁴¹/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /sin²¹/
*** IPA (Taipei): /sin¹¹/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /sin²¹/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: sing$^3$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sìng
*** Sinological IPA : /siŋ²¹³/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^5$shin
*** MiniDict: shin$^去$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^2$xin
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɕin³⁴/
* Xiang
** (Changsha)
*** Wiktionary: sin$^4$
*** Sinological IPA (old-style): /sin⁴⁵/
*** Sinological IPA (new-style): /ɕin⁴⁵/
* Middle Chinese: sinH, swinH
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 |
| Baxter | sinH | swinH |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /siɪn$^H$/ | /siuɪn$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /sin$^H$/ | /sʷin$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /sjen$^H$/ | /sjuen$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /sin$^H$/ | /swin$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /siĕn$^H$/ | /siuĕn$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /sĭĕn$^H$/ | /sĭuĕn$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /si̯ĕn$^H$/ | /si̯uĕn$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | xìn | xùn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | san$^3$ | seon$^3$ |
* 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
* quick; rapid
* quickly; rapidly

### Compounds

* 奮迅 / 奋迅 (fènxùn)
* 疾風迅雷 / 疾风迅雷
* 迅即 (xùnjí)
* 迅急 (xùnjí)
* 迅指
* 迅捷 (xùnjié)
* 迅流
* 迅猛 (xùnměng)
* 迅疾 (xùnjí)
* 迅羽
* 迅翮
* 迅衆 / 迅众
* 迅走
* 迅跑 (xùnpǎo)
* 迅速 (xùnsù)
* 迅邁 / 迅迈
* 迅雷 (xùnléi)
* 迅電 / 迅电
* 迅雷不及掩耳 (xùnléi bùjí yǎn ěr)
* 迅風 / 迅风
* 迅風暴雨 / 迅风暴雨
* 迅飇 / 迅𱃠

### References

* “迅”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “迅”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 272.
* 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “迅”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 239.

## Japanese

| Shinjitai | 迅 |
| Kyūjitai | 迅󠄁 迅+&#xE0101; (Adobe-Japan1) |
| Kyūjitai | 迅󠄄 迅+&#xE0104; (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho) |
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### Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)
* 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

* ↑ “迅”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

## Korean
### Hanja

迅 • (sin) (hangeul 신, revised sin, McCune–Reischauer sin, Yale sin)
* quick, hasty, rapid, sudden