xun
/ʃuːn/noun
xun is a noun meaning “A clay or ceramic globular vessel flute originating in China” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled X-U-N, and it appears about once in every 5 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of xun is xuns.
What does xun mean?
noun
- 1
A clay or ceramic globular vessel flute originating in China.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce xun?
- /ʃuːn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of xun
- xuns plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is xun?
Xun appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 68,248th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does xun come from?
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 塤 /埙 (xūn).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).