謙
- Meaning
- self-effacing humble oneself condescend be modest
- On reading
- ケン
- Kun reading
- へりくだ.る
- Nanori
- かね | ゆずる
- Strokes
- 17
- Radical
- 149
- Grade
- 8
- JLPT
- 1
- Frequency
- 1582
Stroke order
Words using 謙
- 謙虚 けんきょ — modest
- 謙遜 けんそん — modesty
- 恭謙 きょうけん — modesty
- 謙称 けんしょう — self-deprecating term
- 謙譲 けんじょう — modesty
- 謙譲の美徳 けんじょうのびとく — modest virtue
- 謙譲語 けんじょうご — humble language (e.g. itadaku)
- 謙遜語 けんそんご — humble language
- 謙る へりくだる — to deprecate oneself and praise the listener
- 敬虔 けいけん — pious
- 謙抑 けんよく — humbling oneself
- 謙辞 けんじ — modest word
- 謙譲語I けんじょうごいち — humble language in which the listener (or a third party) is the indirect object of an action (or the recipient of an object, etc.)
- 謙譲語II けんじょうごに — humble language in which an action or object is not directed toward the listener (or a third party)
- 地山謙 ちざんけん — qian (hexagram 15 of the I Ching: modesty)