巽

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

obedient

HSK 10 N1

Nature →Weather

xùn

ソン

たつみ

손

Depicts two people kneeling (卩) together (共) in obedience.

Components

卩 person kneeling+ 卩 person kneeling+ 共 together =

巽 obedient

卩 Iconic component

jié person kneeling

seal

Depicts a person kneeling.

卩 Iconic component

jié person kneeling

seal

Depicts a person kneeling.

共 Meaning component

gòng together

together with, all, total

Notes

Historical Evolution

Bronze

Early Warring States (~400 BC)

Bronze

Early Warring States (~400 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

巽

Regular

Modern

Chinese

巽 [xùn]

to obey; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[bāguà], symbolizing wood and wind; ☴; ancient Chinese compass point: 135° (southeast)

Japanese

辰巳、巽たつみ同音

noun southeast

巽そん同音

noun xun (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: wind, southeast)

Example Sentences

Japanese Names

巽すぶる

Suburu surname

巽せん

Sen surname

巽たくみ

Takumi surname

巽たつみ

Tatsumi female given namesurname

巽ゆずる

Yuzuru given name

CHINESE WORDS (8)

巽他海峡 [XùntāHǎixiá]

Sunda Strait between Sumatra and Java

巽他海峡 [XùntāHǎixiá]

Sunda Strait between Sumatra and Java

巽他群岛 [XùntāQúndǎo]

Sunda Islands (Malay archipelago)

巽他群岛 [XùntāQúndǎo]

Sunda Islands (Malay archipelago)

巽他语 [Xùntāyǔ]

Sunda language, used in West Java province in Indonesia

巽他语 [Xùntāyǔ]

Sunda language, used in West Java province in Indonesia

赵尔巽 [ZhàoErxùn]

Zhao Erxun (1844-1927), modern historian, compiled the Draft History of the Qing dynasty 清史稿

赵尔巽 [ZhàoErxùn]

Zhao Erxun (1844-1927), modern historian, compiled the Draft History of the Qing dynasty 清史稿

JAPANESE WORDS (2)