03687 Chinese character of 閏 and pronounce jeon6

The Chinese character【閏】that I will teach you this time is a word that describes time or special cases. It is mainly used for the following meanings:

Leap year or time. Explanation: Because the division of years, months and days in the calendar does not match the number of days it takes for the earth to revolve around the sun, in order to adjust the gap between the calendar and the astronomical phenomena, an additional day or month is added to the appropriate year, which is called a “leap year”. For example: “leap year”, “leap month”, “leap day”.

You can refer to this for the pronunciation of the mentioned Chinese character.

Mandarin Pinyin of 【閏】:rùn

Cantonese Jyutping of 【閏】:jeon6

This section covers the key information related to the character 【閏】︰

Here are some situations where you can use【閏】, for example:Describe a time or special case , It means mainly leap year or time.As Chinese characters have broad and intricate meanings, certain details might be too specific to be entirely explained in this overview.

【閏】can be used alone, but when combined with other words, it forms richer expressions, such as【閏年、閏月】(Mandarin Pinyin:rùn nián 、rùn yuè/ Cantonese Jyutping:jeon6 nin4 、jeon6 jyut6)

There are exactly 12 strokes in this character,It is a Chinese character that must be learned by those aiming to reach a near-native level of proficiency in Chinese,Here is a sentence demonstrating the use of this character.:


每四年有一次閏年,增加一天的時間。

Every four years there is a leap year, which adds an extra day.


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