xūn
noun #22,079

Meanings

  1. 1 meritorious service
  2. 2 merit
  3. 3 decoration
  4. 4 order (award)

Examples

Tā yīn zhàngōng zhuózhù ér huòdéle xūnzhāng.
He was awarded a medal for his outstanding military merit.
Zhè wèi jiāngjūn gōngxūn zhuózhù.
This general has outstanding merit and contributions.

Tips

history
is a classical character associated with military and civil honors in imperial and modern Chinese contexts. It appears in compounds like 勋章 (medal/decoration), 功勋 (meritorious service), and 勋爵 (lord, nobility title borrowed into Chinese).

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