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): /t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn⁵¹ ʂən⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

      [Show/Hide]
      edit edit 欠伸 欠身

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • 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)

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 spelling 欠

(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 (qiànshēn). 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.

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

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

Korean

Hanja in this term
欠	伸

Noun

欠伸 • (heumsin) (hangeul 흠신)

1. hanja form^? of 흠신