旬 xún — ten-day period (of a month); decade; a period of ten days; ten days
旬
Level 1 · Common HSK 6 #500
xún xun2
Basic definition
Detailed explanation
noun
- (形声。从“日”、“螾/蚓”初文声。商代金、甲文假借“螾/蚓”初文、蚯蚓的像形字表示。西周金文加“日”。战国文字“螾/蚓”初文或和“勹”混同，就成了“旬”，秦文字和今文字继承而来。)
- a period of ten-days e.g 兼旬 · 旬期 · 旬修 · 旬首 · 旬浃 · 旬宴
- a period of ten years in a person's age e.g 八旬老母
- tour
- time
adjective
- full e.g 旬月 · 旬岁
Related words
- 中旬 middle third of a month; middle ten days
- 下旬 last third of the month; last ten days
- 上旬 first third of a month; first ten days
- 中下旬 the middle and latter ten days of a month
- 旬刊 a publication issued every ten days
- 初旬 the first ten days of a month
- 旬日 ten days
- 七旬 70 years; one's seventies; 70 days; seventy years old
- 八旬 eighty years old
- 年过六旬 over sixty years old