xùn HSK4

quick

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
chuò walk
SoundMeaning component
xùn to fly rapidly

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangsins
sɯns
Unicodesìn

說文解字

《說文》:“迅,疾也。从辵,卂聲。”

Sources

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