I have seen 准 used mostly in names of offices or ranks like 准尉, but it seems to be interchangeable with 準.

But both of them are in joyo kanji list.

yudantaiteki wrote:

Yeah 准 seems to have been one they added in the recent expansion; I wonder why.  The examples the official list gives are 准将 and 批准; I guess 批准 is used a lot in government so they wanted that in there (Koujien does not give 準 as a possibility for that word).

actually, 准 has been in the Joyo list since the very beginning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C5%8Dy%C5%8D_kanji

First thing that came to mind was 批准. 准教授 is also a common word, as mentioned. I wouldn't really call it a rare character.

Last edited by fakewookie (2012 September 09, 10:07 am)

Yeah I don't think they are either. Wiki has this paragraph on that I do not really feel like comprehending. As for the original question people listed the two instances you'll see the rarer "jun" so problem is solved right?

日本で助教を指して使われる「Assistant Professor」は、直訳が「助教授」となる。また、北米における「Assistant Professor」の職務や待遇は、日本で言う「准教授」に相当することもあり、矛盾がおきる場合もある。

こういった意味では「教授」と「助教授」の間に「准教授」ではなく準教授という職階を置いていた国際基督教大学の制度が北米の教員職階システムに最も忠実なものであったと言われることがある。しかし、その国際基督教大学においても、法改正後は学校教育法改正に伴い「助教授」を「准教授」に、「準教授」を「上級准教授」にそれぞれ名を改めている。

順天堂大学では、「准教授」を「先任准教授」に、「講師」を「准教授」にそれぞれ名を改めている。

MindTrick wrote:

I would just like to point out that in Chinese, 准 is the simplified version of 準 so I treat them as the same character. I've also never seen 准 used before, which makes sense since Japanese primarily uses the traditional form.

I pointed out above that these are not interchangeable in Japanese, but in Chinese as well, 准 is not just a simplified version of 準.  Traditional Chinese uses both distinctly, and this is one of many cases where one character was subsumed into another character in Simplified Chinese.

Last edited by JimmySeal (2012 September 10, 12:19 pm)