Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 純

Modern (Beijing) reading: chún

Preclassic Old Chinese: d(h)un

Classic Old Chinese: d(h)wǝn

Western Han Chinese: d(h)wǝn

Eastern Han Chinese: ʒ́(h)wǝn

Early Postclassic Chinese: ʒ́(h)win

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʒ́(h)win

Late Postclassic Chinese: ʒ́(h)win

Middle Chinese: ʒ́win

English meaning : be complete, perfect, generous, abundant

Russian meaning[s]: 1) чистый, без примеси; простой; 2) чистосердечный, искренний; непорочный; 3) великий, полный (напр. о счастье); 4) древн. выделанный шелк; [zhǔn] кромка, бордюр; обшивать кромкой

Comments: Also read *d(h)ūn, MC don (FQ JY 徒渾), Pek. tún) 'to tie together, wrap up' (thus in Shi 23.2); *tunʔ, MC ćwín (FQ 之尹), Pek. zhǔn 'border'.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 120

Four-angle index: 7248

Karlgren code: 0427 n-o

Vietnamese reading: thuần

Shijing occurrences: 23.2

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