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CHINESE CHARACTER
qiān
谦
谦
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modest; humble
- Numbered pinyin
- qian1
- English meanings
- modest; humble; to yield
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Characters with the same pinyin, regardless of tone.
Qian (heaven trigram)
front
thousand
moat; trench
inlay; embed
yawn
apology
easy
dive; latent
pull
sign
euryale; starch
pious; sincere
blame; condemn
move
send; dispatch
sum
pliers; clamp
lead (chemistry)
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