淳
chún

honest

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 享 represents the sound. Simplified form of 湻.

Components

氵
氵 Meaning component
shui, shuǐ water

氵 is a component form of 水.

享
享 Sound component
xiǎng enjoy

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartdzywin[d]u[r]a pair; simple, unadorned; ample
tsywinturmoisten
tsywinXturʔmeasure of breadth (of cloth)
Zhengzhangdjun
Unicodezhuin

說文解字

渌也。从水𦎫聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)