漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
遜: humble, modest
N1 (our estimate)13 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
辶 carries the meaning · 孫 is drawn in
14 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
ソンson · on'yomi · in compounds
- 謙遜けんそんmodesty; humility; being humble
- 遜色そんしょくinferiority
- 不遜ふそんhaughty; arrogant; insolent
Also read したがう, へりくだる, ゆずる, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“This swooping radical is the winding road you walk upon! It curves under the rest of the kanji like a path being carved through a landscape.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Also read ソン
6 kanji share this on'yomiIn ChineseSimplified 逊 · traditional, as in Japanese · xùn
Japan keeps the traditional form 遜; mainland China simplifies it to 逊.
- Simplified
- 逊 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 遜 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin xùn 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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