蠢

See also: 惷

蠢 U+8822, 蠢 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8822 ← 蠡 [U+8821] CJK Unified Ideographs 蠣 → [U+8823]

Translingual

Han character

蠢 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+15, 21 strokes, cangjie input 手日中戈戈 (QALII), four-corner 5013₆, composition ⿱春䖵)

Derived characters

• 𡆂 𢺨 𣡢 𤅧 𤜗 𨙥 𧕹 𧕷

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1101, character 44
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33797
• Dae Jaweon: page 1565, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2901, character 10
• Unihan data for U+8822

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蠢
alternative forms		惷 𧉾 𧅪 𧕹 𧕷 惷 𧉾 𧅪 𧕹 𧕷 𢧨 𢧔 𢧸 𢨎 𢧬 𢨣 𢧋 𧓟

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蠢
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (屯) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
躉	*tuːnʔ
窀	*rduːn, *duːn, *tun
沌	*donʔ, *duːn, *duːnʔ
盹	*tuːnʔ, *tjuns
頓	*tuːns
扽	*tuːns
黗	*tʰuːn, *tʰuːnʔ
吨	*tʰuːnʔ
屯	*duːn, *tun
飩	*duːn
豘	*duːn
軘	*duːn
坉	*duːn
邨	*duːn, *stʰuːn
忳	*duːn
芚	*duːn
庉	*duːn, *duːnʔ
囤	*duːnʔ
迍	*tun
杶	*tʰun
瑃	*tʰun
椿	*tʰun
偆	*tʰunʔ, *tʰjunʔ
肫	*tjun
訰	*tjun, *tjuns
純	*tjunʔ, *djun
春	*tʰjun
蠢	*tʰjunʔ
踳	*tʰjunʔ
惷	*tʰjunʔ
蒓	*djun
賰	*hljunʔ
鬊	*hljuns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *tʰjunʔ) : phonetic 春 (OC *tʰjun) + semantic 䖵 (“insects”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chǔn (chun³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ceon²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhún / thún

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chǔn
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chǔn
    • Wade–Giles: chʻun³
    • Yale: chwǔn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: choen
    • Palladius: чунь (čunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ən²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ceon²
    • Yale: chéun
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsoen²
    • Guangdong Romanization: cên²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɵn³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhún / thún
    • Tâi-lô: tshún / thún
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhuon, tuon
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰun⁵³/, /tʰun⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰun⁵⁵⁴/, /tʰun⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰun⁵³/, /tʰun⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰun⁵³/, /tʰun⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰun⁴¹/, /tʰun⁴¹/

Note:

• chhún - literary;
• thún - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: tsyhwinX

Rime
Character	蠢
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	昌 (24)
Final (韻)	諄 (47)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	尺尹切
Baxter	tsyhwinX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕʰiuɪnX/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕʰʷinX/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕʰjuenX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cʰwinX/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕʰiuĕnX/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕʰĭuĕnX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕʰi̯uĕnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chǔn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ceon2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰjunʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蠢
Reading #	1/1
No.	12574
Phonetic component	屯
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	蠢
Old Chinese	/*tʰjunʔ/

Definitions

蠢

1. to squirm; to wriggle
2. stupid; foolish
3. clumsy; awkward

Synonyms

• (stupid):

Dialectal synonyms of 笨 (“stupid; lacking intelligence”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		笨, 愚笨, 愚蠢
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	笨
	Taiwan	笨
	Singapore	笨
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	笨
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	悶
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	笨, 蠢
	Wuhan	笨, 蠢
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	笨
	Hefei	笨
Cantonese	Guangzhou	蠢, 笨
	Hong Kong	蠢, 笨
	Yangjiang	吽, 塞督, 塞
	Singapore (Guangfu)	蠢
Gan	Nanchang	笨, 蠢
Hakka	Meixian	笨
Jin	Taiyuan	笨
Northern Min	Jian'ou	笨
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	愚, 笨
Southern Min	Xiamen	笨
	Singapore (Teochew)	白仁
Wu	Suzhou	笨
	Wenzhou	呆, 笨
Xiang	Changsha	蠢
	Shuangfeng	蠢

• (clumsy):

edit

• 呆
• 呆傻 (dāishǎ)
• 呆痴 (dāichī)
• 𡳞面 (Hokkien, vulgar)
• 𡳞鳥面 / 𡳞鸟面 (Hokkien, vulgar)
• 愚戇 / 愚戆 (Hokkien)
• 愚昧 (yúmèi)
• 愚笨 (yúbèn)
• 愚蠢 (yúchǔn)
• 愚鈍 / 愚钝 (yúdùn)
• 拙 (zhuō) (literary, or in compounds)
• 拙笨 (zhuōbèn)
• 撚樣 / 撚样 (lan² joeng^6-2) (Cantonese, vulgar)
• 暗昧 (ànmèi)
• 梢跤 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 梢跤軟蹄 / 梢跤软蹄 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 梢蹬 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 棒槌 (bàngchuí)
• 海鱟 / 海鲎 (Hokkien)
• 混鈍 / 混钝 (Hokkien)
• 痴呆
• 發踱 / 发踱 (⁷faq ⁸doq) (Wu)
• 笨 (bèn)
• 笨拙 (bènzhuō)
• 笨車車 / 笨车车 (Hokkien)
• 臭笨 (Hokkien)
• 菜瓜 (Quanzhou Hokkien)
• 蠢氣 / 蠢气 (qyn³ qi⁴) (Xiang)
• 蠢笨 (chǔnbèn)
• 袋屎 (Hokkien)
• 袋屎袋尿 (Hokkien)
• 跤梢 (Xiamen Hokkien)
• 遲鈍 / 迟钝 (chídùn)
• 阿西 (Hokkien)
• 頇顢 / 顸颟 (Hokkien)
• 鱟 / 鲎 (Hokkien)
• 鳩拙 / 鸠拙 (jiūzhuó) (literary)

Compounds

• 勇男蠢婦 / 勇男蠢妇
• 寒蠢
• 愚蠢 (yúchǔn)
• 蚩蚩蠢蠢 (chīchīchǔnchǔn)
• 蠢人 (chǔnrén)
• 蠢動 / 蠢动 (chǔndòng)
• 蠢夯 (chǔnbèn)
• 蠢材 (chǔncái)
• 蠢東西 / 蠢东西
• 蠢漢 / 蠢汉
• 蠢物
• 蠢笨 (chǔnbèn)
• 蠢若木雞 / 蠢若木鸡
• 蠢蟲 / 蠢虫
• 蠢蠢 (chǔnchǔn)
• 蠢蠢欲動 / 蠢蠢欲动 (chǔnchǔnyùdòng)
• 蠢話 / 蠢话 (chǔnhuà)
• 蠢貨 / 蠢货 (chǔnhuò)
• 蠢陋

See also

• 傻 (shǎ, “foolish”)

Japanese

Kanji

蠢

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. squirm, wriggle

Readings

• Go-on: しゅん (shun)
• Kan-on: しゅん (shun)
• Kun: うごめく (ugomeku, 蠢く)、うごめかす (ugomekasu, 蠢かす)

Compounds

• 蠢蠢(しゅんしゅん) (shunshun)
• 蠢愚(しゅんぐ) (shungu)
• 蠢爾(しゅんじ) (shunji)
• 蠢動(しゅんどう) (shundō)
• 愚蠢(ぐしゅん) (gushun)
• 蠢蠢(うごうご) (ugougo)

Korean

Hanja

蠢 • (jun) (hangeul 준, revised jun, McCune–Reischauer chun, Yale cwun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蠢: Hán Việt readings: xuẩn
蠢: Nôm readings: xuẩn, xoáy

1. chữ Hán form of xuẩn (“squirm, wiggle”).