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郡: county, district

JLPT N110 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met

⻏ carries the meaning · 君 gives the sound

10 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

グンgun · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 郡部ぐんぶrural districts, counties
  • 郡県制度ぐんけんせいどcounty and prefecture system
  • 郡ぐんdistrict; county

Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.

  • 新田郡にったぐんNitta County

Also read こおり, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)邑 city; town, as ⻏ (meaning) + 君 (sound)

It represents one of the ancient local administrative divisions.

Source: Wiktionary, 郡 (rev. 92250431), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Gentleman/ruler (君) + village (⻏). A specific "village" or area assigned to a "ruler" or governor—a regional district or county.”
From the ⻏ village story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
君

Also built on mister (君)

郡 takes the 君 family's reading, グン (gun).

⻏

Also built on village (⻏)

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Also read グン

2 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · jùn

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

Simplified
郡 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
郡 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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