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xúnqī

ten-day period

xún ten-day period

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

Components

云 Sound component

yún clouds

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 云 than it was in ancient scripts.

日 Meaning component

rì sun

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

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Component uses

Sound (0 of 12 verified)

询殉荀绚徇洵峋恂詢郇筍絢

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	zwin	s-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)

qī period of time

Phonosemantic compound. 月 represents the meaning and 其 represents the sound.

Components

月 Meaning component

yuè, yue moon

其 Sound component

qí its, his, (3p possessive)

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC

Seal form — Seal Late Spring and Autumn ~500 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 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

Clerical form — Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	gi	[g](r)ə	period of time

說文解字

《說文》：“期，會也。从月，其聲。，古文期，从日、丌。”

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)