迅

迅 U+8FC5, 迅 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8FC5 ← 迄 [U+8FC4] CJK Unified Ideographs 迆 → [U+8FC6]

Translingual

Han character

迅 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+3, 7 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 6 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 卜弓十 (YNJ), four-corner 3730₁, composition ⿺辶卂)

Derived characters

• 䭀(𩠇), 𩷰(𩾄)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1253, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38727
• Dae Jaweon: page 1735, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3817, character 3
• Unihan data for U+8FC5

Chinese

trad.		迅
simp. #		迅
alternative forms		卂 𨑷

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 迅
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (卂) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
汛	*sreːls, *siːns, *sins
軐	*siːns
卂	*sins, *tods
訊	*sins
訙	*sins
迅	*sins, *sɯns
阠	*sins, *srin, *hljins
扟	*srin
籸	*srin
蝨	*sriɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sins, *sɯns) : semantic 辶 + phonetic 卂 (OC *sins, *tods).

Etymology

Compare with Burmese မြန်ဆန် (mranhcan, “quick, speedy, prompt”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xùn (xun⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seon³
• Northern Min (KCR): sēng
• Eastern Min (BUC): séng
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sing⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sìn

  (Teochew, Peng'im): sing³

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵shin
• Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): sin⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xùn
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syùn
    • Wade–Giles: hsün⁴
    • Yale: syùn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiunn
    • Palladius: сюнь (sjunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕyn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: seon³
    • Yale: seun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soen³
    • Guangdong Romanization: sên³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵn³³/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: sēng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /seiŋ⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: séng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɛiŋ²¹³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sing⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiŋ⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sìn
    • Tâi-lô: sìn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sixn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sin²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sin⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sin²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sin¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sin²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: sing³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sìng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siŋ²¹³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵shin
    • MiniDict: shin^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²xin
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɕin³⁴/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: sin⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key) (old-style): /sin⁴⁵/
    • Sinological IPA ^(key) (new-style): /ɕin⁴⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: sinH, swinH

Rime
Character	迅	迅
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	心 (16)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	眞 (43)	諄 (47)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	息晉切	私閏切
Baxter	sinH	swinH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siɪnH/	/siuɪnH/
Pan Wuyun	/sinH/	/sʷinH/
Shao Rongfen	/sjenH/	/sjuenH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sinH/	/swinH/
Li Rong	/siĕnH/	/siuĕnH/
Wang Li	/sĭĕnH/	/sĭuĕnH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/si̯ĕnH/	/si̯uĕnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xìn	xùn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	san3	seon3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sins/, /*sɯns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	迅	迅
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	14141	14147
Phonetic component	卂	卂
Rime group	眞	文
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	信	𡺲
Old Chinese	/*sins/	/*sɯns/
Notes	卂轉註字

Definitions

迅

1. quick; rapid
2. quickly; rapidly

Compounds

• 奮迅 / 奋迅 (fènxùn)
• 疾風迅雷 / 疾风迅雷
• 迅即 (xùnjí)
• 迅急 (xùnjí)
• 迅指
• 迅捷 (xùnjié)
• 迅流
• 迅猛 (xùnměng)
• 迅疾 (xùnjí)
• 迅羽
• 迅翮
• 迅衆 / 迅众
• 迅走
• 迅跑 (xùnpǎo)
• 迅速 (xùnsù)
• 迅邁 / 迅迈
• 迅雷 (xùnléi)
• 迅電 / 迅电
• 迅雷不及掩耳 (xùnléi bùjí yǎn ěr)
• 迅風 / 迅风
• 迅風暴雨 / 迅风暴雨
• 迅飇 / 迅𱃠

 

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “迅”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 272.

Japanese

Shinjitai	迅
Kyūjitai	迅󠄁 迅+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	迅󠄄 迅+󠄄? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

迅

(Jōyō kanji)

1. swift; fast

Readings

• Go-on: しゅん (shun)、しん (shin)
• Kan-on: しゅん (shun)、しん (shin)
• Kan’yō-on: じん (jin, Jōyō)
• Kun: はやい (hayai, 迅い)

Compounds

• 迅速(じんそく) (jinsoku)

Korean

Hanja

迅 • (sin) (hangeul 신, revised sin, McCune–Reischauer sin, Yale sin)

1. quick, hasty, rapid, sudden