Pinyin Syllable

Chinese characters pronounced run

Learn common Chinese characters pronounced run, including 润 rùn. Compare tones, meanings, traditional forms, words, and example sentences.

How to Pronounce This Syllable

For run, curl the tongue back on r and join it smoothly to un; keep it as a single syllable and hold the tone steady.

Mandarin r is softer than English r and starts with a curled tongue.

Settle the final un into a steady mouth shape first, then lay the tone on top.

Only one common character is read run (润 rùn) — focus on locking in its tone.

run turns up here with 1 different tone; a change of tone usually means a different character, so the groups below are split by tone.

Taking the 4th tone here: 润 (1 in total). Lock this tone in your ear before the meaning.

Seeing run inside whole words makes it clear which character is meant — here are common ones.

1 common character in this group.