xún

ten days

ten years; full period

wrap (勹) + sun/day (日) = ten days bundled together

勹 depicts a wrapping or enclosing shape, suggesting a bounded container of time. Ten days wrapped together form one 旬, a traditional Chinese unit for dividing the month into three tidy periods.

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SunSemantic

这个月上天气很冷。

zhè ge yuè shàng xún tiān qì hěn lěng。

The weather in the first ten days of this month was very cold.

他爷爷今年已是八老人了。

tā yé ye jīn nián yǐ shì bā xún lǎo rén le。

His grandfather is already an eighty-year-old man this year.

Words with 旬

七旬老人

qī xún lǎo rén

septuagenarian

三旬九食

sān xún jiǔ shí

lit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom)

上旬

shàng xún

first third of a month

下旬

xià xún

last third of the month

中旬

zhōng xún

middle third of a month

九旬老人

jiǔ xún lǎo rén

nonagenarian

五旬节

wǔ xún jié

Pentecost

四旬节

sì xún jié

First Sunday of Lent

四旬斋

sì xún zhāi

Lent (Christian period of forty days before Easter)

旬期

xún qī

ten days

旬岁

xún suì

full year

旬朔

xún shuò

ten days

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