Character: 純
Modern (Beijing) reading: chún
Preclassic Old Chinese: d(h)un
Classic Old Chinese: d(h)wǝn
Western Han Chinese: d(h)wǝn
Eastern Han Chinese: ʒ́(h)wǝn
Early Postclassic Chinese: ʒ́(h)win
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʒ́(h)win
Late Postclassic Chinese: ʒ́(h)win
Middle Chinese: ʒ́win
English meaning : be complete, perfect, generous, abundant
Russian meaning[s]: 1) чистый, без примеси; простой; 2) чистосердечный, искренний; непорочный; 3) великий, полный (напр. о счастье); 4) древн. выделанный шелк; [zhǔn] кромка, бордюр; обшивать кромкой
Comments: Also read *d(h)ūn, MC don (FQ JY 徒渾), Pek. tún) 'to tie together, wrap up' (thus in Shi 23.2); *tunʔ, MC ćwín (FQ 之尹), Pek. zhǔn 'border'.
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Number: 1029
Character: 純
MC description : 臻合三平諄禪
ZIHUI: 4783 2177
Beijing: c̣huǝn 12
Jinan: c̣huẽ 12
Xi'an: pfhẽ 12
Taiyuan: chuŋ 1
Hankou: ćhyn 12
Chengdu: suǝn 12
Yangzhou: chuǝn 12
Suzhou: zǝn 12
Wenzhou: zoŋ 12
Changsha: śyn 12
Shuangfeng: ɣuǝn 12
Nanchang: sǝn 31
Meixian: sun 12
Guangzhou: šö_n 12
Xiamen: sun 12
Chaozhou: suŋ 12
Fuzhou: suŋ 12
Shanghai: zǝŋ 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: čhyǝn 12
Radical: 120
Four-angle index: 7248
Karlgren code: 0427 n-o
Vietnamese reading: thuần
Shijing occurrences: 23.2