謙

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See also: 谦
謙 U+8B19, 謙
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8B19
← 謘
[U+8B18]		 CJK Unified Ideographs 謚 →
[U+8B1A]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

謙 (radical 149 言+10, 17 strokes, cangjie input 卜口廿X金 (YRTXC), four-corner 08637, composition ⿰言兼)

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 1175, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35821
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1639, character 36
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4009, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+8B19

Chinese[edit]

trad. 謙
simp. 谦

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 謙
Large seal script Small seal script
謙-bigseal.svg 謙-seal.svg
Characters in the same phonetic series (兼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
譧 r'eːms
賺 r'eːms
尲 kreːm
鹻 kreːmʔ
歉 kʰreːms, *kʰreːmʔ, *kʰeːmʔ, *kʰeːms
槏 kʰreːmʔ
鰜 ɡreːm, *keːm
稴 ɡreːm, *ɡ·reːm, *ɡ·reːmʔ, *ɡ·reːms, *ɡeːm
豏 ɡreːmʔ, *ɡreːms
甉 ɡreːmʔ, *ɡraːm
廉 ɡ·rem
鎌 ɡ·rem
鬑 ɡ·rem, *ɡ·reːm
鐮 ɡ·rem
簾 ɡ·rem
薕 ɡ·rem, *ɡ·reːm
蠊 ɡ·rem
嬚 ɡ·remʔ
溓 ɡ·remʔ, *ɡ·reːm, *ɡ·reːmʔ
嵰 kʰremʔ
隒 ŋɡremʔ
熑 ɡ·reːm
濂 ɡ·reːm
燫 ɡ·reːm
兼 keːm, *keːms
縑 keːm
鶼 keːm
蒹 keːm
搛 keːm
謙 kʰeːm
膁 kʰeːmʔ
嗛 kʰeːmʔ
慊 kʰeːmʔ, *kʰeːb
傔 kʰeːms
馦 qʰeːm
嫌 ɡeːm
鼸 ɡeːmʔ
尷 kreːm

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 謙
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕʰian⁵⁵/
Harbin /t͡ɕʰian⁴⁴/
Tianjin /t͡ɕʰian²¹/
Jinan /t͡ɕʰiã²¹³/
Qingdao /t͡ɕʰiã²¹³/
Zhengzhou /t͡ɕʰian²⁴/
Xi'an /t͡ɕʰiã²¹/
Xining /t͡ɕʰiã⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕʰian⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕʰiɛ̃n³¹/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕʰian⁴⁴/
Wuhan /t͡ɕʰiɛn⁵⁵/
Chengdu /t͡ɕʰian⁵⁵/
Guiyang /t͡ɕʰian⁵⁵/
Kunming /t͡ɕʰiɛ̃⁴⁴/
Nanjing /t͡ɕʰien⁴⁴/
Hefei /t͡ɕʰiĩ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕʰie¹¹/
Pingyao /t͡ɕʰie̞¹³/
Hohhot /t͡ɕʰie³¹/
Wu Shanghai /t͡ɕʰi⁵³/
Suzhou /t͡ɕʰiɪ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡ɕʰiẽ̞³³/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕʰi³³/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰie³¹/
Tunxi /t͡sʰiɛ¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕʰiẽ³³/
Xiangtan /t͡ɕʰiẽ³³/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕʰiɛn⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /kʰiam⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /kʰiɑm²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /him⁵³/
Nanning /him⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /him⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kʰiam⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kʰieŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kiŋ⁵⁴/
/kʰiŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kʰiam³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /xiam²³/
Rime
Character 謙
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 添 (157)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 苦兼切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰem/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰem/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰɛm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰɛm/
Li
Rong		 /kʰem/
Wang
Li		 /kʰiem/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰiem/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 qiān
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 謙
Reading # 1/1
No. 6070
Phonetic
component		 兼
Rime
group		 談
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 謙
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰeːm/

Definitions[edit]

謙

  1. humble; modest
  2. 15th hexagram of the I Ching

Compounds[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

謙

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. humble; modest

Readings[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

謙 • (gyeom) (hangeul 겸, revised gyeom, McCune-Reischauer kyŏm, Yale kyem)

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