Standard

On’yomi: じゅん
Kun’yomi: —
Radical: 水 Water (Kangxi 85)

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

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

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 prepareN4

準じるじゅんじる to follow;to conform;to apply toN1

準ずるじゅんずる to apply correspondingly;to correspond to;to be proportionate to;to conform toN1

準 is rank 396 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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