Hanja Analyzer
倹

倹 — geom

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
검소할 검
Romanization
geom
English
temperate, frugal, economical
Mandarin
jiǎn
Japanese on'yomi
ケン
Japanese kun'yomi
つま.しい つづまやか
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Secondary (Jōyō)
Newspaper frequency
#2,479 of 2,500
Strokes
10
Variant forms
儉
Radical
人 (9, 8 residual)
Unicode
U+5039

Parts that make up 倹

  • 亻 사람 인variant of 人 옆에서 본 사람사람과 사람이 하는 일, 사람의 됨됨이
  • 㑒 다/여러 첨variant of 僉 여럿의 입이 한데 모인 모양‘검·험·렴’ 계열의 소리

Japanese words with 倹

  • 倹約けんやく thrift; economy; frugality
  • 倹けん economizing; thriftiness; prudence
  • 勤倹きんけん industry; diligence; frugality
  • 倹素けんそ economical and simple
  • 節倹せっけん economy; thrift
  • 恭倹きょうけん respectfulness and modesty; deference
  • 倹吝けんりん greedy and stingy
  • 倹しいつましい thrifty; frugal; economical
  • 倹約家けんやくか thrifty person; frugal person; economizer
  • 倹約令けんやくれい laws regulating expenditures; sumptuary edicts; thrift ordinance
  • 勤倹の風きんけんのふう custom (habit) of diligence and thrift
  • 勤倹力行きんけんりっこう work hard and practice frugality

Other hanja read “검”

Other hanja with radical 人

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