jùn
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 old form of 浚: to dredge; to deepen a watercourse

Examples

HSK 7-9
Jùn shì jùn de gǔ zì, zhǐ shūtōng hédào.
The character 濬 is the old form of 浚, to dredge a river.

Tips

history
is an old, fuller form of ('to dredge / deepen a channel'); modern Chinese writes for that meaning. It survives only in classical text, place names like , and personal names. The water radical marks the watercourse meaning.
register
Archaic. For the dredging sense always write in modern text; appears only in old documents and names.

Components

radical
shuǐ
water (left-side form of 水)
is the left-side form of (water). It marks as an action on a watercourse: clearing and deepening a river or canal.
phonetic
ruì
wise; far-seeing
The right side is the deep-seeing element behind ; in it both shapes the sound and reinforces the idea of going deep, here making a channel deep.

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Stroke Order

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