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Chinese

純

chún

silk

HSK 4
TOCFL 6
radical 糸
10 strokes

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Origin

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Lineage

partChinese絲 “silk (fibre, cloth, fabrics, etc.)”
- ideaChinese糸 “thin silk”
partChinese屯 “village; hamlet”

Meanings

character

silk
pure; unmixed
genuine; honest; simple
entirely; completely; all
skillful; proficient

Shuowen Jiezi 說文解字

純：絲也。从糸屯聲。《論語》曰：“今也純，儉。”

Xu Shen, c. 100 CE — the first analytical dictionary of Chinese characters.

國語辭典 definitions

不含雜質的。例：純水、純金、純粹
自然質樸、至誠無偽。例：純樸、純厚、忠純
充分的、非常的。例：純孝、純熟
全、都、皆。例：以上所言，純屬虛構。

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How 純 was written 字形演變

Bronze
金文
Shang–Zhou
Chu slips & silk
楚系簡帛
Warring States
Small seal
說文小篆
Shuowen, c. 100 CE
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
說文解字 Shuowen Jiezi (Xu Shen, c. 100 CE) — Public domain
Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0