漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
準: semi-, correspond to
Also: proportionate to, conform, imitate
JLPT N213 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
氵 carries the meaning · 隼 gives the sound
13 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
ジュンjun · on'yomi · in compounds
- 準備するじゅんびするprepare
- 水準すいじゅんlevel
- 基準きじゅんbasis
- 標準ひょうじゅんstandard
- 準決勝じゅんけっしょうsemifinal
- 準会員じゅんかいいんassociate member
Also read じゅんじる, じゅんずる, なぞらえる, のり, ひとしい, みずもり, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)水 water (meaning) + 隼 (sound)
“water level”.
Source: Wiktionary, 準 (rev. 88127576), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Imagine three raindrops falling—that's sanzui! Whenever you see these three dots on the left side of a kanji, think of water, liquids, or anything that flows.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side準 semi- · 氵 + 隼
vs惟 consider · 忄 + 隹In ChineseSimplified 准 · traditional, as in Japanese · zhǔn
Japan keeps the traditional form 準; mainland China simplifies it to 准.
- Simplified
- 准 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 準 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zhǔn 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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