Chen Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Sun (rì) 旬 Kangxi stroke count: 6 Page 489, Entry 16 Ancient form. Pronounced xun (rising tone). Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters): To cover or be complete. Ten days make one xun. Book of Documents (Shangshu), Canon of Yao: A period of three hundred and sixty-six days. Also, Book of Documents (Shangshu), Counsels of the Great Yu: Three xun. Commentary: A xun is ten days. Book of Rites (Liji), Summary of the Rules of Propriety: In all cases of divination by shell or milfoil, a date beyond one xun is called a distant day, and a date within one xun is called a near day. Also, Book of Odes (Shijing), Greater Odes: Coming to permeate and coming to proclaim. Commentary: A xun is to permeate. Also, Book of Changes (Yijing), Abundance Hexagram: Even within a xun, there is no blame. Annotation: A xun is to be equal or even. Also, History of the Former Han (Qianshu), Biography of Zhai Fangjin: Within the space of a xun year, two prefects were dismissed. Annotation: Shigu says that a xun means a full period. A xun year is the same as saying a full year. Also, Xunshi, the name of a star. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Treatise on the Celestial Offices: Xunshi appears beside the Northern Dipper, shaped like a rooster. Also, Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced xun (rising tone). The meaning is the same. Also, Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Originally written as jun (even/equal). In the Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), it is written as xun. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Offices of Earth, The Equalizer: In a year of abundance, the duke uses three days of the xun. Annotation: A xun means to be equal. Read like the original marshy lowlands. In the Book of Changes (Yijing), Earth Hexagram represents equality; currently, some texts also write it as xun. Also, Rhyme Supplements (Yunbu): Rhymes with xuan (level tone). Liu Zongyuan, Eulogy for an Elder Cousin: Lingering in joyful travels, through months and full xun. At night lighting torches of fat, by day braving wind and mist.