The kanji 謹: meaning, readings and stroke order
謹
- Meaning
- respectful, careful
- On reading
- キン kin
- Kun reading
- つつし(む) tsutsushimu
- Strokes
- 17
- Radical
- 言 speech
- Level
- Level 9 · senior high school
- Old form
- 謹
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- kính cẩn, thận trọng (cẩn)
- Japanese
- つつしむ。うやうやしく する。
- Korean
- 삼가다, 공손하다 (근)
- Chinese
- 恭敬、谨慎 (谨)
Readings, words and example sentences
キン kin · on reading · less common
謹賀新年
Happy New Year (formal greeting)
年賀状に 謹賀新年と 書きます。
I write 'Happy New Year' on my New Year's cards.
つつし(む) tsutsushimu · kun reading · less common
謹む
respectfully, humbly
謹んで お受けします。
I humbly accept.
Practise writing 謹 in the app
In Dino Kids your child writes 謹 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 9 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.
Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.