Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

俊: sagacious, genius

Also: excellence

JLPT N19 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

亻 carries the meaning · 夋 gives the sound

9 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

シュンshun · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 俊足しゅんそくswiftness of foot; fast runner
  • 英俊えいしゅんgenius; prodigy
  • 俊英しゅんえいexcellence; genius

Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Memory story · made up to help you remember

“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
More in the 亻 person story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
亻

Also built on person (亻)

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夋

Also built on 夋

俊 takes the 夋 family's reading, シュン (shun).

Also read シュン

13 kanji share this on'yomiAll 13

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
俊 sagacious · 亻
vs唆 tempt · 口
俊 has 亻 where 唆 has 口.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · jùn

Same form: 俊 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
俊 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
俊 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin jùn most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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