菌 · jūn
mushroom; germ, microbe
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
mushroom; germ, microbe
- Mandarin
- jūn
- Cantonese
- kwan2
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 菌 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
Kun’yomi · hiragana
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.
Go deeperJisho ↗Wiktionary ↗
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.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Reading sources explained
- 균
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+83CC
- Radical
- 艸 · 140
- Strokes
- 11 · Unihan
- Residual
- 8
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
11 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 菌
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- gwinX · 渠殞 反切 · #1479
- Middle Chinese
- gjwonX · 求晚 反切 · #1525
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 10185 · gwinX = 臻合三上眞群 · gjwonX = 山合三上元群
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
- jūn
- kCantonese
- kwan2
- kDefinition
- mushroom; germ, microbe
- kTotalStrokes
- 11
- kRSUnicode
- 140.8
- kGradeLevel
- 3
- kTGH
- 2013:2205
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- jùn,jūn 53234.090
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- jūn 0624.010 · jùn 0624.070
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- jūn 190.020 · jùn 190.140
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- jūn(175)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- jùn粵kwan2 jūn粵kwan2
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 渠殞 求晚
- Kangxi positions
- 1037.140
- Guangyun positions
- 276.28 281.16
- GSR references
- 0485c
- Cangjie
- TWHD
- Four-corner
- 4460.0