漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
巡: patrol, go around
Also: circumference
JLPT N16 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
- 巛(meaning)
- ⻌road(meaning)
巛 and ⻌ carry the meaning
6 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Three readings, and the words that use each
ジュンjun · on'yomi · in compounds
- 巡査じゅんさpolice officer; policeman; constable
- 巡回じゅんかいgoing around; patrol; round
- 巡業じゅんぎょうprovincial tour
- 巡視じゅんしinspection tour
- 巡礼じゅんれいpilgrimage; pilgrim
- 巡航じゅんこうcruise; cruising
めぐるmeguru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 巡るめぐるto go around; to make a circle around
めぐりmeguri · kun'yomi
- 巡り会うめぐりあうto meet fortuitously; to meet by chance
Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)辵 walk (meaning) + 川 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 巡 (rev. 92769099), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Movement (辶) + river (巛 variant). To move along a path like a "flowing river," following a regular circuit or "patrolling" a specific area.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
巛
Also built on 巛
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · xún
Same form: 巡 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 巡 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 巡 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin xún 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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