Chinese Character Wiki

懇

kěn

sincere

Components
貇 sound component

貇  Sound component

kūn

  

to root

心 meaning component

心  Meaning component

xīn

  

heart

heart

Evolution

懇 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
懇 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
懇 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

恳 (懇) 

kěn

sincere, earnest, cordial; earnest

Most common words with 懇
Freq.
Word
Meaning

恳求

to beg

诚恳

sincere

恳请

to request earnestly

恳

earnest

勤勤恳恳

assiduous

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.1257% of movies

2513th most common character in movies

2265th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

恳

Unicode

U+61C7

Shuowen

“，悃也。从心，豤聲。”


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