矜

矜 (Kangxi radical 110, 矛+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 弓竹人戈弓 (NHOIN), four-corner 1822₇, composition ⿰矛今)

• 𱣼, 㥤, 㮗

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 822, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23852
• Dae Jaweon: page 1233, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2764, character 6
• Unihan data for U+77DC

Corrupted from 矝, which is a Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡrɯn, *ɡɯn, *kɯŋ): semantic 矛 (“spear”) + phonetic 令 (OC *ren, *reŋ, *reŋs, *reːŋ, *reːŋs). Modern Mandarin pronunciation follows the corrupted phonetic part 今 (jīn).

Compare Burmese ကြင် (krang, “to be compassionate”) (Luce, 1981).

矜

1. (literary) to pity; to feel sorry for; to show sympathy for
2. (literary) to be self-important

   • 假令韓信學道謙讓，不伐己功，不矜其能，則庶幾哉，於漢家勳可以比周、召、太公之徒，後世血食矣。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     假令韩信学道谦让，不伐己功，不矜其能，则庶几哉，于汉家勋可以比周、召、太公之徒，后世血食矣。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

     Jiǎlìng Hán Xìn xuédào qiānràng, bù fá jǐ gōng, bù jīn qí néng, zé shùjǐ zāi, yú hànjiā xūn kěyǐ bǐ Zhōu, Zhào, Tàigōng zhī tú, hòushì xuèshí yǐ. [Pinyin]

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3. restrained; reserved

   矜持  ―  jīnchí  ―  reserved

   • 子曰：「君子矜而不爭，群而不黨。」 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     子曰：「君子矜而不争，群而不党。」 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Zǐ yuē: “Jūnzǐ jīn ér bù zhēng, qún'érbùdǎng.” [Pinyin]

     The Master said, "The superior man is dignified, but does not wrangle. He is sociable, but not a partisan."

矜

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) handle of a spear

矜

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 鰥 / 鳏 (guān, “old man with no wife”)
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 瘝 (guān, “to be ill”)

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. pride
2. respect

• Go-on: きょう (kyō)、けん (ken)、ごん (gon)
• Kan-on: かん (kan)、きょう (kyō)、きん (kin)
• Kan’yō-on: きん (kin)
• Kun: あわれむ (awaremu, 矜れむ)、つつしむ (tsutsushimu, 矜む)、ほこる (hokoru, 矜る)

矜 • (geung, geun) (hangeul 긍, 근, revised geung, geun, McCune–Reischauer kŭng, kŭn, Yale kung, kun)

1. pity
2. feel sorry for
3. show sympathy for