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Kanji Detail for 蹇 - "lame, worry, stagnate, arrogant, hexagram"

  • Meaning

    蹇 means "lame, worry, stagnate, arrogant, hexagram."

    1. Lame - Having a disabled leg.

    2. Worry - To be troubled; to agonize.

    3. Stagnate - To stop; to be held up.

    4. Arrogant - Proud; haughty.

    5. Hexagram - One of the sixty-four hexagrams of the Yijing.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    cripple

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    lame, crippled; unlucky; hexagram ䷦

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

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    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    lame, crippled; nag, donkey; slow, difficult

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

    Lame. Therefore difficulties and slowness are all called 蹇. Such as 蹇塞 (blocked), 蹇滯 (stagnant). A slow horse is also called 蹇. Meng Jiao's poem says "Riding a slow horse to the journey ahead." | Arrogant. Such as 偃蹇 (arrogant), 驕蹇 (proud). Meaning being haughty and impolite toward others.
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