Chinese Character Wiki

謹

jǐn

prudent

Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 堇 represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

堇 sound component

堇  Sound component

jǐn

  

clay

Evolution

謹 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
謹 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
謹 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
謹 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

谨 (謹) 

jǐn

prudent, cautious; attentive; cautious; careful; solemnly; sincerely (formal)

Most common words with 謹
Freq.
Word
Meaning

谨慎

cautious

谨

cautious

严谨

rigorous

小心谨慎

careful

拘谨

reserved

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kə[r]ʔ

kj+nX

jǐn

attentive, careful


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 10.1714% of movies

2106th most common character in movies

1917th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

谨

Unicode

U+8B39

Shuowen

“謹，慎也。从言，堇聲。”


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