遜 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 卜弓木火 (YNDF), four-corner 32309, composition ⿺辶孫)
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1263, character 3
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39038
- Dae Jaweon: page 1757, character 7
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3874, character 3
- Unihan data for U+905C
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Old Chinese
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孫
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*suːn
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猻
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*suːn
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蓀
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*suːn
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搎
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*suːn
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遜
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*suːns
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愻
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*suːns
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *suːns) : semantic 辵 (“to walk”) + phonetic 孫 (OC *suːn).
Cognate with 孫 (OC *suːn, “grandchild”).
Zhengzhang system (2003)
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Character
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遜
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Reading #
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1/1
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No.
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12182
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Phonetic component
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孫
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Rime group
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文
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Rime subdivision
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2
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Corresponding MC rime
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巽
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Old Chinese
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/*suːns/
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遜
- humble; modest
- to abdicate; (of an emperor) to give up the throne
- (literary) inferior
- (literary) to flee; to escape; to evade
- (Internet slang) lame
- 太遜了/太逊了 ― tài xùn le ― so lame
遜
(Jōyō kanji)
- modest; humble
- inferior
- to defer, to give up something
- to escape, to flee
From Middle Chinese 遜 (MC swonH).
遜 (eumhun 겸손할 손 (gyeomsonhal son))
- hanja form? of 손 (“modesty”)
- 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [1]
遜: Hán Nôm readings: tốn
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