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訓
简 训 · 繁 訓Mandarin · pinyin xùn
Meanings
- to teach; to train; to admonish
- (bound form) instruction (from superiors); teachings; rule
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
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- to teach; to instruct; to lecture
- to explain
- to explain the meaning or sense of a word
- to reprimand; to slam; to rebuke; to denounce
- (colloquial) to scold
- to train; to drill
- teachings; explanation; exegesis
- model; example
- to submit to; to yield to; to obey
- a surname, Xun
- (linguistics) To interpret / read a Chinese character or phrase by associating it with a (usually) non-Sinitic native morpheme or phrase with identical meaning. Applied in Sinitic dialects to Mandarin or Literary Chinese characters, and in the Sinosphere to Literary Chinese. For example, reading (訓／训) the character 人 (“person”) as Hokkien lâng (“person”), Korean 사람 (saram, “person”), or Japanese ひと (hito, “person”).
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