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巽
xùn
1. to obey
2. one of the Eight Trigrams [[八卦<bāguà>]], symbolizing wood and wind
3. [[☴]]
Uncommon • Top 35% ✏️ 12 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

巽
xùn
mild, modest, obedient; southeast; 5th of the 8 trigrams
12 丶

Compound Words (2)

赵尔巽
ZhàoĚrxùn
Zhao Erxun (1844-1927), modern historian, compiled the Draft History of the Qing dynasty [[清史稿]]
巽他群岛
XùntāQúndǎo
Sunda Islands (Malay archipelago)

Metadata

Category
Chinese
Character Frequency Rank
5,254
Word Frequency Rank
29,868 of 84,292