欠伸

欠伸

Chinese

		deficient; owe; to lack deficient; owe; to lack; yawn	to stretch; to extend
simp. and trad. (欠伸)		欠	伸
alternative forms		欠申

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qiànshēn

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄢˋ ㄕㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): him³ san¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qiànshēn
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢˋ ㄕㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ciànshen
    • Wade–Giles: chʻien⁴-shên¹
    • Yale: chyàn-shēn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiannshen
    • Palladius: цяньшэнь (cjanʹšɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰjɛn⁵¹ ʂən⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

      [Show/Hide]
      edit edit 欠伸 欠身

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)
    • Jyutping: him³ san¹
    • Yale: him sān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: him³ san¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: him³ sen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hiːm³³ sɐn⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 欠伸 欠身

Verb

欠伸

1. to yawn and stretch

Related terms

• 打呵欠 (dǎ hēqiàn)
• 伸懶腰／伸懒腰 (shēn lǎnyāo)

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Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
欠	伸
あくび
Grade: 4	Grade: S
jukujikun

The kanji spelling is jukujikun (熟字訓), borrowed from Chinese 欠伸 (qiànshēn).

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 欠伸 – see the following entry.

【あくび】 [noun] 欠, 欠伸: [from 901] a yawn, yawning [verb] to yawn Alternative spellings 欠, 欠伸

(This term, 欠伸, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
欠	伸
けん Grade: 4	しん Grade: S
kan’on

Learned borrowing from Chinese 欠伸. First attested in the early 1300s writings of Zen monk 明極楚俊 (Minki Soshun), an immigrant to Japan from the Yuan dynasty in China.[1]

This reading appears to be largely obsolete in modern Japanese, and the term is not listed in all dictionaries.[2]

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) けんしん [kèńshíń] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [kẽ̞ɰ̃ɕĩɴ]

Noun

欠(けん)伸(しん) • (kenshin) ^{←けんしん (kensin)?}

1. yawning and stretching

References

1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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Korean

Hanja in this term
欠	伸

Noun

欠伸 • (heumsin) (hangeul 흠신)

1. Hanja form^? of 흠신.