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Mythic Mandarin

昆 (kūn): meaning and stroke order

昆 (kūn) means descendant, elder brother, a style of Chinese poetry, variant of 昆.

昆

Simplified
昆
Traditional
昆, 崐, 崑
Pinyin
kūn

Stroke order of 昆

昆

  • kūn variant of 崑|昆[kun1]
  • kūn used in place names, notably Kunlun Mountains 崑崙|昆仑[Kun1 lun2]; (also used for transliteration)
  • kūn descendant; elder brother
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 崐

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 昆

  1. kūn
    • descendant
    • elder brother
    • a style of Chinese poetry
  2. kūn Traditional 崐
    • variant of 崑|昆[kun1]
  3. kūn Traditional 崑
    • used in place names, notably Kunlun Mountains 崑崙|昆仑[Kun1 lun2]
    • (also used for transliteration)

Radical and structure

昆
Radical 日 (Kangxi radical 72) · 8 strokes · 日 on top, 比 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 昆

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).