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Chinese

准

/ʈ͡ʂu̯ən²¹⁴/
to allow; to grant; to permit
  • HSK 3
  • TOCFL 6
  • radical 冫
  • 10 strokes

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Origin

For pronunciation and definitions of 准 – see 準 (“water-level; flat; level; water level; etc.”).

(This character is the simplified and variant form of 準).

Notes:

Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore.

Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

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Lineage

  • simplified fromChinese準 “water-level; flat; level”
    • meaningChinese水 “water (Classifier: 瓶 m; 樽 c; 滴 m c; 池 m c; 盆 m c; 杯 m c)”
    • soundChinese隼 “falcon”
  • partChinese冰 “ice (Classifier: 塊／块 m c; 嚿／𫩥 c)”
    • soundChinese仌 “ice”
  • partChinese隹 “short-tailed bird”

Words built on it: 批准

Meanings

character
  1. to allow; to grant; to permit

國語辭典 definitions

  1. 允許。 例：批准、准許、照准
  2. 確定。 例：准於某日上任。
  3. 依據。 例：准某部公函。
  4. 比照。 例：准前例處理。

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How 准 was written 字形演變

  1. 准 in Small seal script
    Small seal
    說文小篆
    Shuowen, c. 100 CE
  2. 准 in Regular script
    Regular
    楷書
    since c. 200 CE

Historical forms collected by the legacy etymfun dataset; most characters have several attested variants.

Sources

  • Structural decomposition (chaizi) — See upstream
  • Historical glyph forms (zdic.net 字形演变) — Rights unverified
  • HSK / TOCFL word lists — Facts (levels)
  • 教育部《國語辭典簡編本》 (Taiwan MOE) — CC BY-ND 3.0 TW
  • Written form — n/a
  • Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Wiktionary: 准