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均

jūn
adjective #5,637

Meanings

  1. 1 equal; uniform; even
  2. 2 all; without exception

Examples

请均匀地搅拌。
Qǐng jūnyún de jiǎobàn.
Please stir evenly.
平均分数是80分。
Píngjūn fēnshù shì bā shí fēn.
The average score is 80 points.
以上条件均已满足。
Yǐshàng tiáojiàn jūn yǐ mǎnzú.
All the above conditions have been met.

Tips

usage
平均 (píngjūn) = average. 均匀 (jūnyún) = even/uniform. 均 alone means 'all' in formal writing.

Components

radical
土 tǔ
earth; soil
Left earth radical (Kangxi #32) — the indexing radical. Originally 均 was about leveling soil with a ruler, so the ground/earth meaning is literal: spreading dirt evenly across a field. Same radical anchors 地, 场, 城, 坐 — the earthwork family.
phonetic
匀 yún
even; uniform
Right component supplies the sound (yún → jūn, a regular old-Chinese drift between similar palatal initials) and reinforces the meaning, since 匀 itself already means 'even, uniform'. This makes 均 unusually transparent: ground (土) + evenness (匀) = level out, distribute equally.

Stroke Order

均 jūn