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巽
Mandarin · pinyin xùn
Meanings
- to obey
- one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦 bā guà, symbolizing wood and wind
- ☴
- ancient Chinese compass point: 135° (southeast)
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- 巽
- xùn · south-east; mild, modest, obedient; trigram ☴; hexagram ䷸
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Mandarin tones
4 · xun4
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Cantonese word readings for 巽. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
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- ☴ the fifth of the eight trigrams
- ䷸ the 57th of the 64 hexagrams
- obedient
- modest
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