遵

遵	U+9075, 遵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9075

← 遴
[U+9074]

CJK Unified Ideographs

遶 →
[U+9076]

Translingual

Han character

遵 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+12, 16 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 15 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 卜廿田戈 (YTWI), four-corner 3830₄, composition ⿺辶尊)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1264, character 26
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39118
Dae Jaweon: page 1760, character 25
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3885, character 1
Unihan data for U+9075

Chinese

trad.		遵
simp. ^#		遵
alternative forms		𢕰𣦝

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (尊) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
尊	*ʔsuːn
樽	*ʔsuːn
罇	*ʔsuːn
嶟	ʔsuːn, ʔsun
繜	*ʔsuːn
撙	*ʔsuːnʔ
噂	*ʔsuːnʔ
譐	*ʔsuːnʔ
僔	*ʔsuːnʔ
蹲	*zuːn
鱒	zuːnʔ, zuːns
鐏	*zuːns
遵	*ʔsun
鷷	ʔsun, zun
墫	*sʰun
竴	*sʰun

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ʔsun): semantic 辵 (“walk”) + phonetic 尊 (OC *ʔsuːn). However, the phonetic component (offering a vessel of wine) conveys the concept of veneration and showing respect, which is linked to "follow; obey".

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zūn (zun¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄗㄨㄣ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zeon¹ / zyun¹
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): chûn

(Hailu, HRS): zun^ˋ
Northern Min (KCR): có̤ng
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zong¹ / zuong¹
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): chun

(Teochew, Peng'im): zung¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zūn
  - Zhuyin: ㄗㄨㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: zun
  - Wade–Giles: tsun¹
  - Yale: dzwūn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzuen
  - Palladius: цзунь (czunʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡su̯ən⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: zeon¹ / zyun¹
  - Yale: jēun / jyūn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzoen¹ / dzyn¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: zên¹ / jun¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɵn⁵⁵/, /t͡syːn⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chûn
  - Hakka Romanization System: zun^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: zun¹
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sun²⁴/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: zun^ˋ
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡sun⁵³/
Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
  - Kienning Colloquial Romanized: có̤ng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɔŋ⁵⁴/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: zong¹
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ceong
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɔŋ⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: zuong¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡suoŋ⁵⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chun
  - Tâi-lô: tsun
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zwn
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sun⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sun³³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: zung¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsung
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡suŋ³³/

Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 遵
Mandarin	Beijing	/t͡suən⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/t͡suən⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/t͡suən²¹/
	Jinan	/t͡suẽ²¹³/
	Qingdao	/t͡suə̃²¹³/
	Zhengzhou	/t͡suən²⁴/
	Xi'an	/t͡suẽ²¹/
	Xining	/t͡suə̃⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/t͡suŋ⁴⁴/
	Lanzhou	/t͡sũn³¹/
	Ürümqi	/t͡suŋ⁴⁴/
	Wuhan	/t͡sən⁵⁵/
	Chengdu	/t͡sən⁵⁵/
	Guiyang	/t͡sen⁵⁵/
	Kunming	/t͡suə̃⁴⁴/
	Nanjing	/t͡sun³¹/
	Hefei	/t͡sən²¹/
Jin	Taiyuan	/t͡suəŋ¹¹/
	Pingyao	/t͡suŋ¹³/
	Hohhot	/t͡sũŋ³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/t͡səŋ⁵³/
	Suzhou	/t͡sən⁵⁵/
	Hangzhou	/t͡sz̩ʷen³³/
	Wenzhou	/t͡ɕoŋ³³/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡sʌ̃³¹/
Hui	Tunxi	/t͡suːə¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/t͡sən³³/
Xiang	Xiangtan	/t͡sən³³/
Gan	Nanchang	/t͡sun⁴²/
Hakka	Meixian	/t͡sun⁴⁴/
Hakka	Taoyuan	/t͡sun²⁴/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/t͡søn⁵³/
	Nanning	/t͡syn⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/t͡søn⁵⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/t͡sun⁵⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/t͡souŋ⁴⁴/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/t͡sɔŋ⁵⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/t͡suŋ³³/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/t͡sun²³/

Middle Chinese: tswin

Rime
Character	遵
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	諄 (47)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	將倫切
Baxter	tswin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡siuɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʷin/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sjuen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡swin/
Li Rong	/t͡siuĕn/
Wang Li	/t͡sĭuĕn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡si̯uĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jūn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zeon¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts]u[n]/

(Zhengzhang): /*ʔsun/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	遵
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zūn
Middle Chinese	‹ tswin ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]u[n]/
English	follow (a road)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	遵
Reading #	1/1
No.	17997
Phonetic component	尊
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*ʔsun/

Definitions

遵

to follow; to go along
to obey; to comply with
alternative form of 僎 (“master of ceremonies”)

Compounds

不遵 (bùzūn)
凜遵 / 凛遵 (lǐn zūn)
恪遵
欽此欽遵 / 钦此钦遵
祗遵
祭遵布被
遵命 (zūnmìng)
遵大路
遵奉 (zūnfèng)
遵守 (zūnshǒu)
遵從 / 遵从 (zūncóng)
遵循 (zūnxún)
遵時養晦 / 遵时养晦
遵照 (zūnzhào)
遵紬 / 遵绸
遵而不失
遵行 (zūnxíng)
遵辦 / 遵办
遵養時晦 / 遵养时晦
陳遵投轄 / 陈遵投辖
飭遵 / 饬遵

Japanese

Shinjitai	遵
Kyūjitai ^[1]	遵󠄁 遵+`󠄁`^? (Adobe-Japan1)
	遵󠄅 遵+`󠄅`^? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

遵

(Jōyō kanji)

abide by, obey, follow

Readings

Go-on: しゅん (shun)
Kan-on: しゅん (shun)
Kan’yō-on: じゅん (jun, Jōyō)
Kun: したがう (shitagau, 遵う)、ひきいる (hikiiru, 遵いる)
Nanori: ちか (chika)、のぶ (nobu)、ゆき (yuki)、より (yori)

References

^ “遵”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja

遵 • (jun) (hangeul 준, revised jun, McCune–Reischauer chun, Yale cwun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

遵: Hán Nôm readings: tuân

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[1] “遵”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

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