均
jūn HSK4

equal

Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 勻 represents the sound.

Components

土
土 Meaning component
tǔ earth
勻
勻 SoundMeaning component
yún equal

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
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
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

筠

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkjwinC.qʷi[n] even, equal
hwinH[m-qʷ]<r>i[n]-s (no pre-Qín exx.)rhyme

說文解字

《說文》：“均，平，徧也。从土，从勻，勻亦聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)