昆
descendant; elder brother; a style of Chinese poetry
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,865 U+6606
How 昆 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Two brothers 比 under the son 日
How to remember it
descendants · Heisig RSH #457
sun + 比 compare
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 昆 as their sound component
These characters all use 昆 (kūn) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 昆 sound component | kūn | elder brother; descendants |
| 混 | hùn | muddy, confused; to mix, to blend; to mingle |
| 棍 | gùn | stick, cudgel; scoundrel |
| 醌 | kūn | quinone |
| 馄 | hún | dumpling soup; wonton |
| 鲲 | kūn | spawn; roe; fry |
| 鹍 | kūn | a bird resembling a crane |
| 锟 | kūn | a legendary sword |
| 绲 | gǔn | belt, cord, sash; hemming; to sew |
| 辊 | gǔn | to revolve, to turn; a stone roller |
| 琨 | kūn | beautiful jade, precious stones |
Words containing 昆
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 昆士兰州 | Kūn shì lán zhōu | Queensland (Australia) |
| 昆山市 | Kūn shān Shì | Kunshan, a county-level city in Suzhou City 蘇州市|苏州市[Su1 zhou1 Shi4], Jiangsu |
| 昆明市 | Kūn míng Shì | Kunming, prefecture-level city and capital of Yunnan Province 雲南省|云南省[Yun2 nan2 Sheng3] |
| 昆士兰 | Kūn shì lán | Queensland, northeast Australian state |
| 昆虫学 | kūn chóng xué | entomology |
| 石玉昆 | Shí Yù kūn | Shi Yukun (c. 1810-1871), Qing pinghua 評話|评话[ping2 hua4] master storyteller |
| 昆明湖 | Kūn míng Hú | Kunming Lake |
| 昆山 | Kūn shān | see 崑山市|昆山市[Kun1 shan1 Shi4] |
| 昆汀·塔伦提诺 | Kūn tīng · Tǎ lún tí nuò | Quentin Tarantino (1963-), American film director |
| 昆明 | Kūn míng | see 昆明市[Kun1 ming2 Shi4] |
| 昆布 | kūn bù | kelp |
| 昆卡 | Kūn kǎ | Cuenca (place name and surname) |
| 昆曲 | Kūn qǔ | Kunqu opera, influential musical theater originating in Kunshan, Jiangsu province in Yuan … |
| 昆玉 | kūn yù | honorific term for another person's brother |
| 昆汀·塔伦蒂诺 | Kūn tīng · Tǎ lún dì nuò | Quentin Tarantino (1963-), American film director |
| 昆虫 | kūn chóng | insect; CL:隻|只[zhi1],群[qun2],堆[dui1] |
| 喀拉昆仑山 | Kā lā kūn lún shān | Karakorum mountains |
| 昆都仑区 | Kūn dū lún Qū | Hondlon, a district of Baotou City 包頭市|包头市[Bao1 tou2 Shi4], Inner Mongolia |
| 昆仑山脉 | Kūn lún shān mài | Kunlun Mountain range |
| 喀喇昆仑公路 | Kā lǎ kūn lún Gōng lù | Karakorum Highway, linking Pakistan and Xinjiang |