Character: 淳
Modern (Beijing) reading: chún
Preclassic Old Chinese: d(h)ur
Classic Old Chinese: d(h)un
Western Han Chinese: d(h)un
Eastern Han Chinese: ʒ́(h)un
Early Postclassic Chinese: ʒ́(h)un
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʒ́(h)un
Late Postclassic Chinese: ʒ́(h)un
Middle Chinese: ʒ́win
English meaning : thick, solid, big [L. Zhou]
Russian meaning[s]: 1) чистый, простой; 2) верный, преданный; 3) Чунь (фамилия)
Comments: Also used during L. Zhou for a homonymous *d(h)ur "each consisting of..., each of a pair" (in enumeration); for *tur, MC ćwin (FQ JY 朱倫), Pek. zhūn 'to pour (out)'.The basic meaning of *d(h)ur since Han is "pure, with no admixture".
Radical: 85
Four-angle index: 3056
Karlgren code: 464 e
Go-on: zjun
Kan-on: sjun
