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Kanji Detail for 懃 - "strive, cordial"

懃

  • Meaning

    懃 means "strive, cordial."

    1. Strive - To endeavor; to devote oneself.

    2. Cordial - Polite; courteous.

  • Four-character idioms with 懃

    • 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

    courteous, cordial; zealous

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    variant of 勤[qin2]; industrious; solicitous

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

    慇懃. See "慇" for details.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    gon(ゴン) ゴン

    kin(キン) キン

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    nengoro(ねんご-ろ) ねんご-ろ

  • Strokes

    tip

    17 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    心 忄 (kokoro・shitagokoro・risshimben)

  • Related Keywords

    strive endeavor devote oneself cordial polite courteous

Sentences including 懃

  • 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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