Kanji Detail for 讓 - "yield, transfer, humble"

讓

Jinmeiyō Kanji

Meaning
讓 means "yield, transfer, humble."
1. Yield - To give way; to concede.
2. Transfer - To hand over; to assign.
3. Humble - To be modest; to defer.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

allow; permit; yield; concede

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

allow, permit, yield, concede

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被[bei4])

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

to allow, to permit, to yield

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

Using great principles to reproach someone is called 讓. | To be modest and retiring. All putting others before oneself is called 讓. Such as 沖讓 (humble yielding). Giving what one has to others is also called 讓. Such as 揖讓 (courteous yielding).
Onyomi

joh(じょう)
Kunyomi

se.meru(せめる)

yuzu.ru(ゆずる)
Strokes

24 strokes
Radical

言 (gen・gomben・kotoba)
Related Keywords
yield give way concede transfer hand over assign humble modest defer cede surrender resign abdicate blame reproach rebuke criticize accuse