漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
殉: martyrdom, follow by resigning
JLPT N110 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
歹 carries the meaning · 旬 gives the sound
10 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
ジュンjun · on'yomi · in compounds
- 殉教じゅんきょうmartyrdom
- 殉職じゅんしょくdying at one's post
- 殉難じゅんなんmartyrdom
Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)歹 (meaning) + 旬 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 殉 (rev. 92758116), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Bone (歹) + circle/period (旬). To follow someone into "death" as if completing a full "circle" of loyalty—the definition of a martyr.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
旬
Also built on decameron (旬)
殉 takes the 旬 family's reading, ジュン (jun).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side殉 martyrdom · 歹
vs洵 alike · 氵In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · xùn
Same form: 殉 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 殉 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 殉 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin xùn 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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