See also:
U+905C, 遜
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-905C

[U+905B]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+905D]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

(Kangxi radical 162, +10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 卜弓木火 (YNDF), four-corner 32309, composition )

Derived characters edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1263, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39038
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1757, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3874, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+905C

Chinese edit

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin edit

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *suːns): semantic (to walk) + phonetic (OC *suːn).

Etymology edit

Cognate with (OC *suːn, “grandchild”).

Pronunciation edit



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (16)
Final () (55)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter swonH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/suənH/
Pan
Wuyun
/suonH/
Shao
Rongfen
/suənH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/swənH/
Li
Rong
/suənH/
Wang
Li
/suənH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/suənH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
sùn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
syun3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 12182
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*suːns/

Definitions edit

  1. humble; modest
  2. to abdicate; (of an emperor) to give up the throne
  3. (literary) inferior
  4. (literary) to flee; to escape; to evade
  5. (Internet slang) lame
      ―  tài xùn le  ―  so lame

Compounds edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. modest; humble
  2. inferior
  3. to defer, to give up something
  4. to escape, to flee

Readings edit

Compounds edit

Korean edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Chinese (MC swonH).

Hanja edit

(eumhun 겸손할 (gyeomsonhal son))

  1. Hanja form? of (modesty).

Compounds edit

References edit

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [1]

Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

: Hán Nôm readings: tốn

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