The corpus record — Literary Chinese

君

jūn

sovereign, monarch, ruler, chief, prince

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Where it lives

Analects (Lunyu) 159 · 99.23/10k
Mencius 253 · 71.34/10k
Zhuangzi, Inner Chapters 21 · 15.24/10k
Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 12 · 6.82/10k

What it meant — Unihan character definitions

sovereign, monarch, ruler, chief, prince

In the wild

君 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 二十三章
君 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 二十六章
君 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 二十六章
君 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 二十六章
君 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 二十六章
君 Daodejing (Wang Bi recension) 二十六章

6 of 445 attestations shown.

Chinese texts (Daodejing, Analects, Zhuangzi, Mencius) are public domain by age; transcriptions from Kanripo and Wikisource (CC BY-SA 4.0). Readings via Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).