# 準 — Standard

Frequency rank 396 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 予 (Beforehand), less common than 両 (Both).

- On’yomi: じゅん
- Kun’yomi: —
- Radical: 水 Water (Kangxi 85)
- Frequency path: Level IV of XX

A tsunami on the left, a turkey in the middle, and a cross on the right — the tsunami's turkey crosses the water and sets the standard for how to survive floods.

In words:

- 準備 じゅんび・する — to prepare
- 準じる じゅんじる — to follow;to conform;to apply to
- 準ずる じゅんずる — to apply correspondingly;to correspond to;to be proportionate to;to conform to

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