遜 — son

Parts that make up 遜

How 遜 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 遜 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 辵, 孫.

Korean example words with 遜

• 손색遜色 Korean gloss: 다른 것과 견주어 보아 못한 점
• 손위하다遜位 Korean gloss: 임금의 자리를 내어놓다
• 불손하다不遜 Korean gloss: 말이나 행동 따위가 버릇없거나 겸손하지 못하다
• 겸손하다謙遜 Korean gloss: 남을 존중하고 자기를 내세우지 않는 태도가 있다
• 손사遜辭 Korean gloss: 겸손한 말.
• 손사遜謝 Korean gloss: 겸손하게 사양함.
• 손양遜讓 Korean gloss: 겸손하게 사양함.
• 읍손揖遜 Korean gloss: 읍하는 예를 갖추면서 자기를 낮춤.
• 손순遜順 Korean gloss: 남을 존중하고 자기를 내세우지 않는 태도가 있음.
• 공손恭遜 Korean gloss: ‘공손하다’의 어근.
• 손피하다遜避 Korean gloss: 겸손하게 사양하여 피하다.
• 손공하다遜恭 Korean gloss: 말이나 행동이 겸손하고 예의 바르다.

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 遜

• 謙遜けんそん modesty; humility; being humble
• 遜色そんしょく inferiority
• 不遜ふそん haughty; arrogant; insolent
• 謙遜語けんそんご humble language
• 傲慢不遜ごうまんふそん haughty; arrogant; overbearing
• 傲岸不遜ごうがんふそん haughty arrogance
• 尊大不遜そんだいふそん arrogant and presumptuous; haughty arrogance; intolerable insolence
• 遜色ないそんしょくない standing comparison with; comparing favorably with; by no means inferior to
• 遜色があるそんしょくがある inferior to; suffering by comparison with; unable to compare with
• 遜色がないそんしょくがない standing comparison with; comparing favorably with; by no means inferior to
• 遜色のないそんしょくのない standing comparison with; comparing favorably with; by no means inferior to

Characters sharing the phonetic 孫

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “손” in Korean.

Other hanja read “손”

Other hanja with radical 辵