qiān

humble

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
讠 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

is a component form of .

兼 sound component

  Sound component

jiān

  

double

Evolution

谦 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
谦 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
谦 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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qiān

humble, modest; modest

Most common words with 谦
Freq.
Word
Meaning

谦虚

modest

modest

谦逊

humble

谦卑

humble

谦让

to modestly decline

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 4.7733% of movies

2504th most common character in movies

2345th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

Unicode

U+8C26


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