郡 (jùn): canton, county
郡 (jùn) is a Chinese character meaning “canton.” Outside the HSK 3.0 syllabus (CLEC 2022), it is composed of 君 (phonetic) and 阝 (semantic). It ranks #2003 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 郡 place. Its radical form 阝 (mound) appears in many related characters such as 那 (nà, (specifier) that), 都 (dōu, all), 院 (yuàn, courtyard).
Definitions
- canton
- county
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 格洛斯特郡 | gé luò sī tè jùn | Gloucestershire county in southwest England |
| 白金汉郡 | bái jīn hàn jùn | Buckinghamshire (English county) |
| 林肯郡 | lín kěn jùn | Lincolnshire (English county) |
| 非都会郡 | fēi dū huì jùn | non-metropolitan county (England) |
| 郡治安官noun | jùn zhì ān guān | sheriff |
| 威尔特郡 | wēi ěr tè jùn | Wiltshire (English county) |
| 莱斯特郡 | lái sī tè jùn | Leicestershire, English county |
| 日南郡 | rì nán jùn | Han dynasty province in Vietnam |
| 郡会 | jùn huì | county capital |
| 约克郡proper-noun | yuē kè jùn | Yorkshire (English region) |
| 萨里郡 | sà lǐ jùn | Surrey (county in south England) |
| 郡望noun | jùn wàng | choronym (a family's region of origin, used as an indicator of superior social status in a surname-choronym combinati... |
| 汉四郡proper-noun | hàn sì jùn | four Han commanderies in north Korea 108 BC-c. 300 AD |
| 兰开夏郡 | lán kāi xià jùn | Lancashire (English county) |
| 西米德兰兹郡 | xī mǐ dé lán zī jùn | West Midlands, UK county, capital Birmingham 伯明翰 |
郡 appears in 28 compound words: 18 as the first character, 82 as the last, and 0 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 郡 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
写好郡字需要掌握正确的笔画顺序。
xiě hǎo jùn zì xū yāo zhǎng wò zhèng què de bǐ huà shùn xù .
To write the character "郡" correctly, you need to master the correct stroke order.
于是，2026 年的今天，四姐妹需要前往韩国高兴郡，经营一家乡村年糕店。
yú shì , 2 0 2 6 nián de jīn tiān , sì jiě mèi xū yāo qián wǎng hán guó gāo xīng jùn , jīng yíng yī jiā xiāng cūn nián gāo diàn .
So, today in 2026, the four sisters need to travel to Gyeongheung County, South Korea, to run a rural rice cake shop.
出使前后，汉代相继设武威、酒泉、张掖、敦煌四郡，中原与西域遣使通商日益频繁。
chū shǐ qián hòu , hàn dài xiāng jì shè wǔ wēi , jiǔ quán , zhāng 掖 , dūn huáng sì jùn , zhōng yuán yǔ xī yù qiǎn shǐ tōng shāng rì yì pín fán .
Before and after these diplomatic missions, the Han Dynasty successively established the four commanderies of Wuwei, Jiuquan, Zhangye, and Dunhuang, and trade missions between the Central Plains and the Western Regions became increasingly frequent.
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Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 阝 (place) component
Frequently Asked Questions
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