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| 儉 | |
gim6
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[1] frugal; economical; thrift [2] meager [3] [n] poor harvest Stroke count: 15
Level: 3
Radical: 亻 (#9)
This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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| 儉 / 俭 | |
*** This entry has been marked as UNSURE by an editor, so it may not be fully accurate ***This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 and last edited on 30th Oct 2008 |
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勤儉
kan4 gim6 = hardworking and thrifty; industrious and frugal
勤工儉學
kan4 gung1 gim6 hok6 = work and study at the same time
慳儉
haan1 gim6 = economical, miserly, stingy, parsimonious 粵
知慳識儉
zi1 haan1 sik1 gim6 = thrift 粵
節儉
zit3 gim6 = frugal; to save money
豐儉由人
fung1 gim6 jau4 jan4 = lavish or frugal to suit |
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Showing 1 example containing 儉
做任何事都要勤儉。
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Be thrifty and hardworking in whatever undertaking you are to start on. Legend 國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese. 粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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Decimal representation of this word: 儉
Unicode code for this character: U+5109 (off-site link)
[big][url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/1412/]儉[/url][/big]
HTML Code to link to this word:
<a href="http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/1412/" class="chinesemed" target="_blank">儉</a>
Decimal representation of this word: 儉
Unicode code for this character: U+5109 (off-site link)
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