君
Meanings
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- 1.monarch
- 2.lord
- 3.gentleman
- 4.ruler
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- 1.sovereign; monarch; ruler; chief; prince; lord
- 2.An honorific title: lord
- 3.you; your (referring to a male)
- 4.A polite form of address used among couples.
- 5.to dominate; to reign
- 6.-kun
- 7.Affectionate name suffix.
- 8.a surname, Jun
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *klun): phonetic 尹 (OC *ɢʷlinʔ) + semantic 口. In the oracle bones and early Zhou bronze inscriptions, 君 was often interchanged with 尹. Shuowen suggests that 口 represents commands, but it may simply be decorative. Unknown. Here are several possibilities: * Related to Old Mon kmin, kmun (“to exercise royal power; to be king; to reign”) (Schuessler, 2007); * Related to 尹 (OC *ɢʷlinʔ, “director; governor”) and 元 (OC *ŋon, “head”) and cognate with Tibetan མགོན (mgon, “protector; master; lord”) (Mei Tsu-lin, 1985); * The *k- prefixed derivative of 尹 (OC *ɢʷlinʔ, “to straighten; to administer”) (Baxter and Sagart, 1998); however, this is phonologically problematic (Schuessler, 2007). The ACG sense is an orthographic borrowing from Japanese 君 (-kun), which is in turn from Chinese.
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