遜 — humble, modest

そん遜 humble

そん

U+905C Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Heisig #1496 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

humble
modest

Readings

On'yomi: そん son
Kun'yomi: したが shitaga へりくだ herikuda ゆず yuzu

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そん son On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

謙(けん) 遜(そん) kenson modesty

Words by frequency and grade

1 word

Each dot is a word containing 遜: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 1 word has no frequency rank; it sits in the Unranked column.

Stroke order

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Components

Composed of

まご孫 grandchild

辶 road

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#162 辵 walk