昆 — Chinese character
昆
kūn
elder brother; descendants
- Pinyin
- kūn
- Radical
- 72 ⽇ (Sun)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 日 比
- Formation
- ideographic — Two brothers 比 under the son 日
- Japanese
- 昆 as a kanji
Common words with 昆
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 昆虫 (昆蟲) | kūn chóng | insect; 只 (zhī),群 (qún),堆 (duī) |
| 昆虫学 (昆蟲學) | kūn chóng xué | entomology |
| 昆布 | kūn bù | kelp |
| 昆仲 | kūn zhòng | (literary) brothers; elder and younger brother |
| 昆玉 | kūn yù | honorific term for another person's brother |
English words written with 昆
昆 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 4 · Doctrine of the Mean 2
- Analects 11.4
- Mencius 1B.3
- Zhuangzi On Letting Alone
- Zhuangzi Hsü Wu Kuei
- Zhuangzi Robber Chê
- The Doctrine of the Mean Passage 20
- The Doctrine of the Mean Passage 21
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.