讯

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(bound form) to ask; to inquire; (bound form) to interrogate; to question; (bound form) news; information

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HSK 3.0: Level 6
Old HSK: Level 6
Strokes: 5
Radical: 言 +3
Structure: Left–right 左右
Traditional: 訊
Common rank: #1,280
Unicode: U+8BAF

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Formation & memory

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How 讯 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

讠 meaning “speech” + 卂 sound ( xùn )

Components 讠卂

How to remember it

interrogate · Heisig RSH #1656

words + crochet needles

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 讯

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
通讯自动化	tōng xùn zì dòng huà	communications automation
美国联合通讯社	Měi guó Lián hé Tōng xùn shè	Associated Press (AP); abbr. to 美聯社\|美联社[Mei3 Lian2 she4]
国际文传电讯社	Guó jì Wén chuán Diàn xùn shè	Interfax, Russian non-governmental news agency
英国电讯公司	Yīng guó Diàn xùn Gōng sī	British telecom; BT
国际文传通讯社	Guó jì wén chuán tōng xùn shè	Interfax News Agency
通讯作者	tōng xùn zuò zhě	corresponding author (of an academic paper)
中复电讯	Zhōng fù Diàn xùn	Zoomflight Telecom (Chinese company)
全球资讯网	Quán qiú Zī xùn wǎng	(Tw) World Wide Web
美国资讯交换标准码	Měi guó zī xùn jiāo huàn biāo zhǔn mǎ	ASCII, American Standard Code for Information Interchange
通讯院士	tōng xùn yuàn shì	corresponding member (of an academy); junior academician
通讯卫星	tōng xùn wèi xīng	communications satellite
韩国联合通讯社	Hán guó Lián hé Tōng xùn shè	Yonghap (South Korean news agency)
资讯工程	zī xùn gōng chéng	information engineering (Tw)
通讯员	tōng xùn yuán	correspondent; reporter; messenger boy
约定资讯速率	yuē dìng zī xùn sù lǜ	committed information rate (Frame Relay); CIR
通讯系统	tōng xùn xì tǒng	communication system
近场通讯	jìn chǎng tōng xùn	(Tw) (computing) near-field communication (NFC)
通讯处	tōng xùn chù	contact address
通讯协定	tōng xùn xié dìng	(Tw) (computing) communication protocol
近距离无线通讯	jìn jù lí wú xiàn tōng xùn	(computing) near-field communication (NFC)

Sound family

Characters sharing the sound component 卂 — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
卂 sound part	xùn	to fly rapidly
汛	xùn	high water, flood tides