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遜

Stroke Order

Meanings

  • humble
  • modest

On'yomi (音読み)

  • ソン

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

  • したが.う
  • へりくだ.る
  • ゆず.る
Strokes
14
Frequency
#2463
School Grade
Secondary
Radical
辵#162 · walk

Components

Common Words

  • 謙遜けんそんNoun
    modesty, humility, being humble
  • 不遜ふそんna-adjective
    haughty, arrogant, insolent
  • 遜るへりくだるGodan verb
    to deprecate oneself and praise the listener, to abase oneself
  • 遜色そんしょくNoun
    inferiority
  • 謙遜語けんそんごNoun
    humble language
  • 傲岸不遜ごうがんふそんNoun
    haughty arrogance
  • 傲慢不遜ごうまんふそんna-adjective
    haughty, arrogant, overbearing
  • 尊大不遜そんだいふそんNoun
    arrogant and presumptuous, haughty arrogance, intolerable insolence

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