沌 · dùn
chaotic, confused; turbid, murky
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
chaotic, confused; turbid, murky
- Mandarin
- dùn
- Cantonese
- deon6
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 沌 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 돈
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+6C8C
- Radical
- 水 · 85
- Strokes
- 7 · Unihan
- Residual
- 4
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
7 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 沌
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 屯 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 屯聲
Line 7372 · ⿰氵屯 · 屯聲
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- dwon · 徒渾 反切 · #492
- Middle Chinese
- dwonX · 徒損 反切 · #1537
- Middle Chinese
- drjwenX · 持兖 反切 · #1650
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 4216 · dwon = 臻合一平魂定 · dwonX = 臻合一上魂定 · drjwenX = 山合三上仙澄
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- dùn
- kCantonese
- deon6
- kDefinition
- chaotic, confused; turbid, murky
- kTotalStrokes
- 7
- kRSUnicode
- 85.4
- kTGH
- 2013:3770
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- dùn,tún,chún,zhuàn 31561.090
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- dùn 0277.110 · zhuàn 1521.080
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- dùn 083.160 · zhuàn 487.020
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- dùn粵deon6
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 徒渾 徒損 持兖
- Kangxi positions
- 0610.100
- Guangyun positions
- 119.26 282.43 294.24
- GSR references
- 0427h
- Cangjie
- EPU
- Four-corner
- 3511.7