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Kanji Detail for 慇 - "grieve, cordial"

  • Meaning

    慇 means "grieve, cordial."

    1. Grieve - To be sad; to anguish.

    2. Cordial - Polite; courteous.

  • Four-character idioms with

    • 慇懃無礼 いんぎんぶれい Listen superficially polite but actually rude; rude under a veneer of politeness; courteous on the surface but insolent at heart
    • 馬鹿慇懃 ばかいんぎん Listen overdone politeness; polite to a fault; feigned politeness
  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    courtesy

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    careful, anxious, attentive

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    solicitous

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Worried. Such as 殷憂. | 慇懃: Attentive. Anciently written as 殷勤.
  • Onyomi

    tip
  • Kunyomi

    tip
    none
  • Strokes

    tip
  • Radical

    tip
  • Related Keywords

Sentences including

  • What is hard to put up with is his over-politeness.

  • I find just the memory of his overly polite patronizing manner really offensive.

  • These bank employees seem so politely insolent lately. I wonder what's behind it.

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