Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife

駿: a good horse, speed

Also: a fast person

JLPT N117 strokesName kanji (jinmeiyō)Your ink: 白 Not met

馬 carries the meaning · 夋 is drawn in

17 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

シュンshun · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 優駿ゆうしゅんfine racehorse
  • 駿足しゅんそくswiftness of foot; fast runner
  • 駿馬しゅんめswift horse

Also read スン, すぐれる, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Gallop ahead! Imagine a spirited stallion charging across a field, its mane flying in the wind.”
More in the 馬 horse story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
馬

Also built on horse (馬)

All 11
夋

Also built on 夋

Also read シュン

13 kanji share this on'yomiAll 13

Also read スン

1 kanji shares this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
駿 a good horse · 夋
vs駒 pony · 句
駿 has 夋 where 駒 has 句.
In ChineseSimplified 骏 · traditional, as in Japanese · jùn

Japan keeps the traditional form 駿; mainland China simplifies it to 骏.

Simplified
骏 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
駿 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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