漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
順: obey, order
Also: turn, right, docility, occasion
JLPT N212 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
川 and 頁 carry the meaning
12 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Today
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One reading, and the words that use it
ジュンjun · on'yomi · in compounds
- 順じゅんorder, turn [n.]
- 順番じゅんばんorder, turn [n.]
- 順序じゅんじょorder, sequence, procedure
- 順位じゅんいorder, rank, precedence
- 順路じゅんろroute
- 順風満帆じゅんぷうまんぱんsmooth sailing
- 道順みちじゅんitinerary, route
- 手順てじゅんprocess, procedure, protocol
- 筆順ひつじゅんstroke order
- 先着順せんちゃくじゅんorder of arrival
- 順調なじゅんちょうなfavorable, alright
- 従順なじゅうじゅんなobedient, submissive
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Face the world! This radical represents everything that happens from the neck up—thinking, seeing, breathing, and the very identity of a person.”
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順 obey · 川
vs項 paragraph · 工In ChineseSimplified 顺 · traditional, as in Japanese · shùn
Japan keeps the traditional form 順; mainland China simplifies it to 顺.
- Simplified
- 顺 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 順 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin shùn 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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