謙

Meaning

謙 centers on lowering oneself in speech or attitude: being self-effacing, humble, or modest, and sometimes condescending to meet others at their level.

• 謙虚けんきょ
  N2

  modest; humble

• 謙遜けんそん
  N2

  modesty; humility; being humble

• 謙譲けんじょう

  modesty; humility

• 謙るへりくだる
  N1

  to deprecate oneself and praise the listener; to abase oneself

• 地山謙ちざんけん

  qian (hexagram 15 of the I Ching: modesty)

• 恭謙きょうけん

  modesty; humility

• 謙抑けんよく

  humbling oneself

• 謙称けんしょう

  self-deprecating term; humble way of referring to oneself, one's abilities, one's possessions, etc.

• 謙譲の美徳けんじょうのびとく

  modest virtue

• 謙譲語けんじょうご

  humble language (e.g. itadaku)

• 謙譲語Ｉけんじょうごいち

  humble language in which the listener (or a third party) is the indirect object of an action (or the recipient of an object, etc.)

• 謙譲語ＩＩけんじょうごに

  humble language in which an action or object is not directed toward the listener (or a third party); humble language used as a courtesy

• 謙辞けんじ

  modest word; humble language

• 謙遜語けんそんご

  humble language

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