Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

倹: frugal, economy

Also: thrifty

JLPT N110 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

亻 carries the meaning · 㑒 gives the sound

10 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

ケンken · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 倹約けんやくthrift; economy; frugality
  • 倹けんeconomizing; thriftiness; prudence
  • 勤倹きんけんindustry; diligence; frugality

Also read つましい, つづまやか, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Memory story · made up to help you remember

“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
More in the 亻 person story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
亻

Also built on person (亻)

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㑒

Also built on 㑒

Also read ケン

39 kanji share this on'yomiAll 39

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
倹 frugal · 亻
vs剣 sabre · 刂
倹 has 亻 where 剣 has 刂.
In ChineseSimplified 俭 · traditional 儉 · jiǎn

Three different forms: Japanese 倹, simplified 俭, traditional 儉.

Simplified
俭 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
儉 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin jiǎn most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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