勤

See also 懃

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 堇 + semantic 力 (“strong”) – to work hard, to be diligent.

Han character

勤 (radical 19 力+11, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿一大尸 (TMKS), four-corner 4412₇)

1. industrious, diligent, attentive

Derived characters

• 懃

References

• KangXi: page 149, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2415
• Dae Jaweon: page 336, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 378, character 3
• Unihan data for U+52E4

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Cantonese

Hanzi

勤 (Yale kan4)

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Japanese

Kanji

勤 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: きん (kin), ごん (gon)
• Kun: つとめる (tsutomeru), つとめ (tsutome)

Compounds

• 勤学
• 勤苦
• 勤倹
• 勤倹尚武
• 勤倹力行
• 勤仕
• 勤続
• 勤惰
• 勤怠
• 勤王/勤皇
• 勤王攘夷
• 勤番
• 勤勉
• 勤務
• 勤役
• 勤労
• 勤行
• 勤求
• 勤修

Proper noun

勤 (hiragana つとむ, romaji Tsutomu)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

勤 (hangeul 근, revised geun, McCune-Reischauer kŭn)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

勤 (pinyin qín (qin2), Wade-Giles ch'in²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

勤 (cần, cùn)