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順 (Kangxi radical 181,頁+3, 12 strokes,cangjie input中中中金 (LLLC),four-corner21086,composition⿰川頁)
| trad. | 順 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 顺 | |
| alternative forms | 𩑎 㥧 幁 𠈼ancient | |
| Historical forms of the character順 | |||||||
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| Shang | Western Zhou | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled inHan) | Liushutong (compiled inMing) | Libian (compiled inQing) | ||
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Bronze inscriptions | Chu slip and silk script | Qin slip script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts | Clerical script |
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声,OC*ɢljuns): phonetic 川(OC*kʰjon) + semantic 頁.Shuowen considers it to be an ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 川(“river”) + 頁(“head”) - flowing in the river, i.e. following/obeying the river's current. Compare the English phrasego with the flow.
CompareTibetanའདུལ('dul,“to tame; to subdue”) (Hill, 2019).
Possibly related to循 (OC *sə.lu[n], “to follow”),馴 (OC *sə.lu[n], “docile”) (Schuessler, 2007).
| Variety | Location | 順 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /ʂuən⁵¹/ |
| Harbin | /ʂuən⁵³/ | |
| Tianjin | /ʂuən⁵³/ /suən⁵³/ | |
| Jinan | /suẽ²¹/ /ʈ͡ʂʰuẽ⁰/孝～ | |
| Qingdao | /ʂuə̃⁴²/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /ʂuən³¹²/ | |
| Xi'an | /fẽ⁴⁴/ | |
| Xining | /fə̃²¹³/ | |
| Yinchuan | /ʂuŋ¹³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /fə̃n¹³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /ʂuŋ²¹³/ /fɤŋ²¹³/ | |
| Wuhan | /ɕyn³⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /suən¹³/ | |
| Guiyang | /suen²¹³/ | |
| Kunming | /ʂuə̃²¹²/ | |
| Nanjing | /ʂun⁴⁴/ | |
| Hefei | /ʂuən⁵³/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /suəŋ⁴⁵/ |
| Pingyao | /suŋ³⁵/ | |
| Hohhot | /sũŋ⁵⁵/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /zəŋ²³/ |
| Suzhou | /zən³¹/ | |
| Hangzhou | /zz̩ʷen¹³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /joŋ²²/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /ɕyʌ̃²²/ |
| Tunxi | /ɕyan¹¹/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /ɕyn⁵⁵/ /ɕyn¹¹/ |
| Xiangtan | /ɕyn⁵⁵/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /sun²¹/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /sun⁵³/ |
| Taoyuan | /ʃun⁵⁵/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /søn²²/ |
| Nanning | /syn²²/ /sɐn²²/ | |
| Hong Kong | /søn²²/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Hokkien) | /sun²²/ |
| Fuzhou (Eastern Min) | /souŋ²⁴²/ | |
| Jian'ou (Northern Min) | /sœyŋ⁴⁴/ | |
| Shantou (Teochew) | /suŋ³⁵/ | |
| Haikou (Hainanese) | /tun³³/ /tun²³/便～ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 順 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 船 (27) |
| Final (韻) | 諄 (47) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 食閏切 |
| Baxter | zywinH |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ʑiuɪnH/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ʑʷinH/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ʑjuenH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ʑwinH/ |
| Li Rong | /d͡ʑiuĕnH/ |
| Wang Li | /d͡ʑĭuĕnH/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /d͡ʑʰi̯uĕnH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | shùn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | seon6 |
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 順 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | shùn |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ zywinH › |
| Old Chinese | /*Cə.lu[n]-s/ |
| English | follow; obey |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 順 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 1636 |
| Phonetic component | 川 |
| Rime group | 文 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 順 |
| Old Chinese | /*ɢljuns/ |
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