jun

See also: Appendix:Variations of "jun"

Languages (22)

Translingual • English

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Atong (India) • Chinese • Chuj • Dutch • Epigraphic Mayan • Japanese • Kaqchikel • K'iche' • Lacandon • Mam • Mandarin • Q'anjob'al • Serbo-Croatian • Spanish • Swedish • Tzotzil • Uzbek • Vietnamese • Xicotepec de Juárez Totonac • Yucatec Maya

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Translingual

Symbol

jun

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Juang.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Juang terms

English

Alternative forms

• jeon, chon

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 전(錢) (jeon).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʒʌn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

jun (plural jun)

1. A monetary unit of North Korea and formerly of South Korea, equal to one hundredth of a won.

Translations

subunit of currency in both Koreas

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 錢 / 钱 (zh) (qián)

• Czech: čchon
• Japanese: チョン (ja) (chon)
• Korean: 전 (ko) (jeon)
• Polish: czon m inan, dzon m inan
• Russian: чон (ru) m (čon)

See also

• meat jun

Atong (India)

Etymology

From English June.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʑun/

Noun

jun (Bengali script জুন)

1. June

Synonyms

• asalja

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 5.

Chinese

Etymology

Clipping of English junior.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zun¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zun¹
    • Yale: jūn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzun¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zun¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡suːn⁵⁵/

Noun

jun

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) junior staff

Chuj

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *juun.

Numeral

jun

1. one

References

• Jessica Coon, Unergatives, antipassives, and roots in Chuj (2016), p. 24

Dutch

Noun

jun m

1. abbreviation of juni (“June”)

   Coordinate terms: jan, feb, mrt, apr, mei, jul, aug, sep, okt, nov, dec

Epigraphic Mayan

Alternative forms

• ⟨𝋡⟩

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *juun.

Numeral

jun

1. one

Japanese

Romanization

jun

1. Rōmaji transcription of じゅん

Kaqchikel

Kaqchikel cardinal numbers

<  020	120	220  >
Cardinal : jun

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *juun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [χun], [χuŋ]

Numeral

jun

1. one

References

https://talkingdictionary.swarthmore.edu/kaqchikel/?entry=343

K'iche'

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *juun.

Numeral

jun

1. one

Derived terms

• julajuj 'eleven'
• juwinaq 'twenty'
• jumuchʼ 'eighty'
• jumulaj 'many'

Lacandon

Numeral

jun

1. one

Mam

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *juun.

Numeral

jun

1. one

Mandarin

Romanization

jun

1. nonstandard spelling of jūn
2. nonstandard spelling of jǔn
3. nonstandard spelling of jùn

Usage notes

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Q'anjob'al

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *juun.

Numeral

jun

1. one

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• jȗni

Noun

jȗn m inan (Cyrillic spelling ју̑н)

1. June (Gregorian calendar month)

Declension

Declension of jun

	singular	plural
nominative	jun	juni
genitive	juna	juna
dative	junu	junima
accusative	jun	june
vocative	jun	juni
locative	junu	junima
instrumental	junom	junima

Coordinate terms

Gregorian calendar months (Bosnia/Serbia): m(j)eseci gregorijanskog kalendaraedit

• jȁnuār
• fȅbruār
• mȁrt
• àprīl
• mȁj
• jȗni ~ jȗn
• jȗli ~ jȗl
• àvgust (Serbia) ~ àugust (Bosnia)
• sèptēmbar
• òktōbar
• nòvēmbar
• dècēmbar

Spanish

Noun

jun m

1. alternative form of jun.: abbreviation of junio (“June”)

   Coordinate terms: ene, feb, mar, abr, may, jul, ago, sept, oct, nov, dic

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jʉːn/
• Rhymes: -ʉːn

Noun

jun c

1. alternative form of jun.: abbreviation of juni (“June”)

   Coordinate terms: jan, feb, mar, apr, maj, jul, aug, sep, okt, nov, dec

Tzotzil

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *juun.

Numeral

jun

1. one

Uzbek

Alternative forms

• yung

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yuŋ.

Noun

jun

1. wool

Vietnamese

Etymology

Probably borrowed from French joule.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zun˧˧ ke˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [jun˧˧ kej˨˩˦]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [jʊwŋ͡m˧˧ kej˦˥]
• Phonetic spelling: giun kế

Noun

jun

1. joule

   jun kế ― joulemeter

Xicotepec de Juárez Totonac

Noun

jun

1. hummingbird

References

• Reid, Aileen A.; Bishop, Ruth G. (1974), Diccionario totonaco de Xicotepec de Juárez, Puebla: Totonaco-castellano, castellano-totonaco (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 17)‎^[1], México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 41

Yucatec Maya

Yucatec Maya numbers ^(edit)

		20[a], [b]
		1	2  → [a], [b]	20  → [a], [b]
Cardinal: jun, hun

Alternative forms

• hun (obsolete)

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *juun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hun]

Numeral

jun

1. one

Derived terms

• junab kʼuj ("one god", also a name for the Christian God
• junbaakʼ
• junkʼáal
• junpiik

References

• Beltrán de Santa Rosa María, Pedro (1746), Arte de el idioma maya reducido a succintas reglas, y semilexicon yucateco (in Spanish), Mexico: Por la Biuda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, page 152: “Hun. Vno. 1.”
• Gómez Navarrete, Javier Abelardo (2009), Diccionario Introductorio Español-Maya, Maya-Español‎^[2] (in Spanish), Chetumal: Universidad de Quintana Roo, archived from the original on 30 January 2025, page 136: “JUN”
• Montgomery, John (2004), Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, pages 58, 203