纯 (chún): pure, simple, unmixed
纯 (chún) is a Chinese character meaning “pure.” Classified as HSK Level 6 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 纟 (semantic) and 屯 (phonetic). It ranks #1123 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 纯 silk. Its radical form 纟 (silk) appears in many related characters such as 系 (xì, to connect), 累 (lěi, to accumulate), 绍 (shào, to continue).
Definitions
- pure
- simple
- unmixed
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 纯
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 纯粹 | chún cuì | pure |
| 纯洁 | chún jié | pure |
| 纯属 | chún shǔ | to be purely |
| 纯净 | chún jìng | pure |
| 纯真 | chún zhēn | innocent and unaffected |
| 纯正 | chún zhèng | pure |
| 纯度 | chún dù | purity |
| 纯种 | chún zhǒng | purebred |
| 纯金 | chún jīn | pure gold |
| 纯情 | chún qíng | pure and innocent |
| 清纯 | qīng chún | fresh and pure |
| 纯朴 | chún pǔ | variant of 淳樸|淳朴[chun2 pu3] |
| 纯熟 | chún shú | skillful |
| 炉火纯青 | lú huǒ chún qīng | lit. the stove fire has turned bright green (allusion to Daoist alchemy) (idiom) |
| 纯净水 | chún jìng shuǐ | purified water |
纯 appears in 58 compound words: 74 as the first character, 14 as the last, and 12 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 纯 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
这种果汁是纯天然的，不含任何添加剂。
Zhè zhǒng guǒzhī shì chúntiānrán de, bù hán rènhé tiānjiā jì.
This juice is pure natural and contains no additives.
吴中纯淋巴癌走了!好友忆去年两人看刘德华电影 ...
wú zhōng chún lín bā ái zǒu le ! hǎo yǒu yì qù nián liǎng rén kàn liú dé huá diàn yǐng . . .
Wu Zhongchun lymphoma is gone! Friends recalled that last year, the two watched Andy Lau's movie...
法拉帝(09638)2025年纯利为9010万欧元,同比增加约2.2%
fǎ lā dì ( 0 9 6 3 8 ) 2 0 2 5 nián chún lì wéi 9 0 1 0 wàn ōu yuán , tóng bǐ zēng jiā yuē 2 . 2
Ferretti (09638) net profit in 2025 will be 90.1 million euros, an increase of about 2.2% year-on-year
蔡瑞雪清纯校花形象大崩坏?橙发低胸辣照疯传 网:差...
蔡 ruì xuě qīng chún jiào huā xíng xiàng dà bēng huài ? chéng fā dī xiōng là zhào fēng chuán wǎng : chā . . .
Cai Ruixue's image of a pure school flower collapsed? Orange-haired low-cut spicy photos went viral: Poor...
...前女友送的银手镯,剪开发现内芯为30克高纯..
. . . qián nǚ yǒu sòng de yín shǒu 镯 , jiǎn kāi fā xiàn nèi xīn wéi kè gāo chún . .
... Ex-girlfriend gave me a silver bracelet, cut open and found that the core is 30 grams of high purity ...
萨米要求了纯素食。
Sà mǐ yāoqiú le chúnsùshí.
Sami requested vegan food.
汤姆决定了成为纯素食者。
Tāngmǔ juédìng le chéngwéi chúnsùshízhě.
Tom has decided to become a vegan.
这家餐厅提供纯素食菜吗？
Zhè jiā cāntīng tígōng chúnsùshí cài ma?
Does this restaurant serve vegan dishes?
那个发现纯属偶然。
Nèige fāxiàn chúnshǔ ǒurán.
That discovery was quite accidental.
我去那个派对纯粹是为了交际。
Wǒqù nàge pàiduì chúncuì shì wèile jiāojì.
I attended the party just to be sociable.
Character Family
纟 Radical Family — Characters sharing the silk radical
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