旬
xún HSK7

ten-day period

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Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 云 represents the sound.

Components

云
云 Sound component
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 云 than it was in ancient scripts.
日
日 Meaning component

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
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 Shuowen ~100 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
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartzwins-N-qʷi[n] ten-day cycle

說文解字

《說文》：“旬，徧也。十日為旬。从勹、日。，古文。”

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.715
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)