See also: 谨慎 and 謹愼

Chinese edit

cautious cautious
trad. (謹慎)
simp. (谨慎)

Pronunciation edit



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (28) (25)
Final () (57) (43)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter kj+nX dzyinH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kɨnX/ /d͡ʑiɪnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kɨnX/ /d͡ʑinH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kiənX/ /d͡ʑjenH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kɨnX/ /d͡ʑinH/
Li
Rong
/kiənX/ /ʑiĕnH/
Wang
Li
/kĭənX/ /ʑĭĕnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ki̯ənX/ /ʑi̯ĕnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jǐn shèn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gan2 san6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jǐn shèn
Middle
Chinese
‹ kj+nX › ‹ dzyinH ›
Old
Chinese
/*kə[r]ʔ/ /*[d]i[n]-s/
English attentive, careful careful

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 6744 17082
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kɯnʔ/ /*djins/

Adjective edit

謹慎

  1. cautious; careful; prudent; circumspect; wary

Synonyms edit

Antonyms edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

Sino-Xenic (謹慎):

See also edit

Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
きん
Grade: S
しん
Grade: S
kan’on
Alternative spelling
謹愼 (kyūjitai)
 謹慎 on Japanese Wikipedia

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

(きん)(しん) (kinshin

  1. self restraint
    (きん)(しん)(しょ)(ぶん)()らう
    kinshin shobun o kurau
    to get suspended (from work or school)
  2. moderating one's behaviour
  3. penitence
  4. discipline

Derived terms edit

Adjective edit

(きん)(しん) (kinshin-na (adnominal (きん)(しん) (kinshin na), adverbial (きん)(しん) (kinshin ni))

  1. prudent; disciplined

Inflection edit

Verb edit

(きん)(しん)する (kinshin suruintransitive suru (stem (きん)(しん) (kinshin shi), past (きん)(しん)した (kinshin shita))

  1. to behave; to be on one's best behavior
  2. to have self restraint
  3. to be penitent

Conjugation edit

References edit

  1. ^ Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2011), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Seventh edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Vietnamese edit

chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Adjective edit

謹慎

  1. chữ Hán form of cẩn thận (careful; cautious).