遜

遜 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 卜弓木火 (YNDF), four-corner 3230₉, composition ⿺辶孫)

• 䕖

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1263, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39038
• Dae Jaweon: page 1757, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3874, character 3
• Unihan data for U+905C

Historical forms of the character 遜
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *suːns) : semantic 辵 (“to walk”) + phonetic 孫 (OC *suːn).

Cognate with 孫 (OC *suːn, “grandchild”).

遜

1. humble; modest
2. to abdicate; (of an emperor) to give up the throne
3. (literary) inferior
4. (literary) to flee; to escape; to evade

   • 吾家耄遜于荒 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     吾家耄逊于荒 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Book of Documents, circa 7^th – 4^th centuries BCE

     wú jiā mào xùn yú huāng

     Our household's elders fled to the wasteland

5. (Internet slang) lame

   太遜了／太逊了  ―  tài xùn le  ―  so lame

6. A respelling of the English patronymic son

   納爾遜／纳尔逊  ―  Nà'ěr Xùn  ―  Nelson

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “逊”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 272.

(Jōyō kanji)

1. modest; humble
2. inferior
3. to defer, to give up something
4. to escape, to flee

• Go-on: そん (son, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: そん (son, Jōyō)
• Kun: ゆずる (yuzuru, 遜る)、へりくだる (herikudaru, 遜る)、のがれる (nogareru, 遜れる)、したがう (shitagau)
• Nanori: ゆずる (yuzuru)

• 遜色(そんしょく) (sonshoku): inferiority

From Middle Chinese 遜 (MC swonH).

遜 (eumhun 겸손할 손 (gyeomsonhal son))

1. hanja form^? of 손 (“modesty”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

遜: Hán Nôm readings: tốn

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