巽

See also: 巺 and ☴

巽 U+5DFD, 巽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5DFD ← 巼 [U+5DFC] CJK Unified Ideographs 巾 → [U+5DFE]

巽 U+2F884, 巽 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F884 ← 㠯 [U+2F883] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 帨 → [U+2F885]

Translingual

Han character

巽 (Kangxi radical 49, 己+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口山廿金 (RUTC), four-corner 7780₁, composition ⿱⿰巳巳共(GHTKV) or ⿱⿰己己共(J))

Derived characters

• 僎, 噀, 㦏, 撰, 潠, 㯢, 㷷, 襈, 繏(𦈝), 䍻, 蟤, 譔(𬤥), 䠣, 鐉(𰾼), 饌(馔)
• 選, 簨, 㔵

Additional Derived Characters

• 𡢀, 𢵬, 𰖮, 𤩄, 𦠆, 𰨓, 𧾌, 𪟼, 𦧸, 𩦖, 𩪞, 𩻝, 𡮭, 𡮸, 𦺈, 𦌔, 𨶷

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 327, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8765
• Dae Jaweon: page 631, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 987, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5DFD

• Unihan data for U+2F884

Chinese

trad.		巽
simp. #		巽
alternative forms		巺 𢁅 𢁌

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 巽
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
撰	*sɡroːnʔ, *sɡronʔ
饌	*sɡroːnʔ, *sɡrons
譔	*skʰon, *sɡronʔ, *sɡrons
鐉	*skʰon
選	*sqʰonʔ, *sqʰons
繏	*sqʰons
潠	*sqʰons, *sqʰuːns
蟤	*skron
僎	*sɡronʔ, *sɡrons, *skun
襈	*sɡrons, *ɡrons
巽	*sqʰuːns
簨	*sqʰunʔ

Originally 巺, Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 𠨎 (“people kneeling”) + 丌 (“table”) – "food, meal; to prepare/display food".

Jiajie (假借) - The character was subsequently borrowed for a near-homophone meaning "obedient; modest", and the original meaning came to be represented by 饌 (OC *sɡroːnʔ, *sɡrons), through the addition of a semantic component 飠 (“food; eating”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xùn (xun⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seon³
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): sun

  (Hailu, HRS): sun^˖

• Eastern Min (BUC): sáung
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): song⁴ / suong⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sùn

  (Teochew, Peng'im): sung³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xùn
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syùn
    • Wade–Giles: hsün⁴
    • Yale: syùn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiunn
    • Palladius: сюнь (sjunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕyn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: seon³
    • Yale: seun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soen³
    • Guangdong Romanization: sên³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵn³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sun
    • Hakka Romanization System: sun
    • Hagfa Pinyim: sun⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /sun⁵⁵/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: sun^˖
    • Sinological IPA: /sun³³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: sáung
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɑuŋ²¹³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: song⁴
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: seo̍ng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬɔŋ⁴²/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: suong⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬuoŋ⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sùn
    • Tâi-lô: sùn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: suxn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sun²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sun⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sun²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sun¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sun²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: sung³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sùng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /suŋ²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: swonH

Rime
Character	巽
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	魂 (55)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	蘇困切
Baxter	swonH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/suənH/
Pan Wuyun	/suonH/
Shao Rongfen	/suənH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/swənH/
Li Rong	/suənH/
Wang Li	/suənH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/suənH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sùn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	syun3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sqʰuːns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	巽
Reading #	1/1
No.	14170
Phonetic component	巽
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	巽
Old Chinese	/*sqʰuːns/

Definitions

巽

1. ☴ the fifth of the eight trigrams
2. ䷸ the 57th of the 64 hexagrams
3. obedient
4. modest

Compounds

• 巽二
• 巽令
• 巽他海峽 / 巽他海峡 (Xùntā Hǎixiá)
• 巽他群島 / 巽他群岛 (Xùntā Qúndǎo)
• 巽言