欠伸

Chinese

		deficient; owe; to lack deficient; owe; to lack; yawn	to stretch; to extend
simp. and trad. (欠伸)		欠	伸
alternative forms		欠申

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qiànshēn

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄢˋ ㄕㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): him³ san¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qiànshēn
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢˋ ㄕㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ciànshen
    • Wade–Giles: chʻien⁴-shên¹
    • Yale: chyàn-shēn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiannshen
    • Palladius: цяньшэнь (cjanʹšɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn⁵¹ ʂən⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 欠伸 欠身

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: him³ san¹
    • Yale: him sān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: him³ san¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: him³ sen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hiːm³³ sɐn⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 欠伸 欠身

Verb

欠伸

1. to yawn and stretch

   • 遙遙聞㴱巷犬吠聲，便有婦人驚覺欠伸，摇其夫語猥褻事，夫囈語。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     遥遥闻深巷犬吠声，便有妇人惊觉欠伸，摇其夫语猥亵事，夫呓语。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: c. 1661, 林嗣環,《〈秋声詩〉自序》

     Yáoyáo wén shēn xiàng quǎnfèi shēng, biàn yǒu fùrén jīngjué qiànshēn, yáo qí fū yǔ wěixiè shì, fū yìyǔ. [Pinyin]

     From the depths of a lane in the distance came the barking of a dog, waking a woman with a start. The woman yawned and stretched her arms, then spoke some dirty words to her husband, who was talking in his dream.

Related terms

• 打呵欠 (dǎ hēqiàn)
• 伸懶腰／伸懒腰 (shēn lǎnyāo)

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
欠	伸
あくび
Grade: 4	Grade: S
jukujikun

The kanji spelling is jukujikun (熟(じゅく)字(じ)訓(くん)), borrowed from Chinese 欠伸 (qiànshēn).

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 欠伸 – see the following entry.

【あくび】 [noun] 欠, 欠伸: [from 901] a yawn, yawning [verb] to yawn Alternative spelling 欠

(This term, 欠伸, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
欠	伸
けん Grade: 4	しん Grade: S
kan'on

Learned borrowing from Chinese 欠伸 (qiànshēn). First attested in the early 1300s writings of Zen monk 明極楚俊 (Minki Soshun), an immigrant to Japan from the Yuan dynasty in China.

This reading appears to be largely obsolete in modern Japanese, and the term is not listed in all dictionaries.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kẽ̞ɰ̃ɕĩɴ]
• (Tokyo) けんしん [kèńshíń] (Heiban – [0])

Noun

欠(けん)伸(しん) • (kenshin) ^{←けんしん (kensin)?}

1. yawning and stretching

References

• “〈欠伸〉”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja in this term
欠	伸

Noun

欠伸 • (heumsin) (hangeul 흠신)

1. hanja form^? of 흠신