君
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monarch; lord; gentleman; ruler
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 口 +4
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 君
- Common rank
- #1,060
- Unicode
- U+541B
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
monarch · Heisig RSH #959
尹 overseer + 口 mouth
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 君
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 君子动口不动手 | a gentleman uses his mouth and not his fist | |
| 以小人之心，度君子之腹 | to gauge the heart of a gentleman with one's own mean measure (idiom) | |
| 君子不计小人过 | see 大人不記小人過|大人不记小人过[da4 ren2 bu4 ji4 xiao3 ren2 guo4] | |
| 正人君子 | upright gentleman; man of honor | |
| 君子之交 | friendship between gentlemen, insipid as water (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3]) | |
| 开明君主 | enlightened sovereign | |
| 火德星君 | spirit of the planet Mars | |
| 君山区 | Junshan, a district of Yueyang City 岳陽市|岳阳市[Yue4 yang2 Shi4], Hunan | |
| 君主政体 | monarchy; autocracy | |
| 君主国 | monarchy; sovereign state | |
| 君子之交淡如水 | a gentleman's friendship, insipid as water (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3]) | |
| 君主政治 | monarchy | |
| 君子兰 | scarlet kafir lily; Clivia miniata (botany) | |
| 君主制 | monarchy | |
| 仁人君子 | people of good will (idiom); charitable person | |
| 有仇不报非君子 | a real man, if he takes a hit, will seek to even the score (idiom) | |
| 龙阳君 | homosexual (positive term) | |
| 专制君主制 | absolute monarchy; autocracy | |
| 杀君马者道旁儿 | lit. bystanders killed the king's horse (idiom) (based on an ancient story in which people… | |
| 听君一席话，胜读十年书 | listening to the words of a wise man can be superior to studying ten years of books (prove… |
Sound family
These characters use 君 as their sound component — compare how they read.