xùn
adjective #20,755

Meanings

  1. 1 rapid
  2. 2 fast

Examples

HSK 4
Lǔ Xùn shì Zhōngguó zuì zhùmíng de xiàndài zuòjiā zhīyī.
Lu Xun is one of the most famous modern Chinese writers.
HSK 7-9
Huǒshì xùnsù mànyán, dàjiā lìkè chèlí.
The fire spread rapidly, and everyone evacuated immediately.

Tips

memory
(movement) + (rapid bird-flight) - moving so fast it's just a blur.

Components

radical
chuò
walking; motion (radical form of 辵)
Bottom-and-left is the walking radical - the compressed form of , picturing a foot in motion. Indexing radical, putting in the family of going-and-moving verbs ( enter, 退 retreat, welcome, chase). Carries the core meaning: names a speedy, swift motion, so the radical does the semantic work.
phonetic
xùn
swift; fly fast
Inner supplies the sound - xùn straight through, no drift - and is itself an archaic pictograph of a bird in rapid flight, so the phonetic doubles as a perfect semantic match: swift bird-flight plus the walking radical = rapid travel. Same phonetic family: news, flood-tide, train.

Stroke Order

xùn