Anchan Juni

Anchan Juni, 安禪具泥, is a Göktürk title that the Tongdian explains from the word for meat. The Göktürks, it says, called meat anchan. Hence the anchan juni.^[1] The holder managed the affairs of the household, in the manner of an official of state.^[1] The passage belongs to the Tongdian’s account of the early ranks of the khaganate. The names of these ranks were taken from the body, from age, from colour and hair, from wine and meat, or from animals.^[1]

One translation makes the household the khan’s. It renders the office as the keeper of his private affairs.^[2] The Tongdian does not explain the second element, juni. It names no holder of the title.^[1]