chǔn HSK7

wriggle

Phonosemantic compound. represents the sound and represents the meaning.

Components

Sound component
chūn spring
Meaning component
kūn insects

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangtʰjunʔ
Unicodechuǐn

說文解字

《說文》:“蠢,蟲動也。从,春聲。古文蠢从。《周書》曰:‘我有于西。’”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica