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Hanzi Character Search: 殉

6B89

 
die for cause, be martyr for
Radical 𣦵𣦶
Strokes (without radical) 6 Total Strokes 10
Mandarin reading xùn Cantonese reading seon1 seon6
Japanese on reading jun Japanese kun reading shitagau
Korean reading swun Vietnamese reading tuẫn
Semantic Variant(s)

CEDICT Entries:

   [ xùn guó ]    to die for one's country
   [ xùn jié ]    to sacrifice one's life by loyalty (to one's prince, one's husband etc)
   [ xùn zhí ]    to die in the line of duty
   [ xùn nàn ]    to sacrifice oneself in a just cause, a victim of a disaster
⇒    [ yīn gōng xùn zhí ]    to die in the course of performing one's duty (idiom)

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