恳
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earnest
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 心 +6
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 懇
- Common rank
- #3,550
- Unicode
- U+6073
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
wholeheartedly · Heisig RSH #2507
silver + 心 heart
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 恳
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 恳切 | earnest; sincere | |
| 恳求 | to beg; to beseech; to entreat; entreaty | |
| 恳辞 | to decline with sincere thanks | |
| 恳请 | to request earnestly | |
| 勤恳 | diligent and attentive; assiduous; sincere | |
| 勤勤恳恳 | industrious and conscientious; assiduous | |
| 诚恳 | sincere; honest; cordial |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 艮 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 艮 sound part | blunt; tough, chewy | |
| 眼 | eyelet, hole, opening | |
| 根 | root, basis, foundation | |
| 银 | silver; cash, money, wealth | |
| 退 | to retreat, to step back, to withdraw | |
| 限 | boundary, limit, line | |
| 恨 | to dislike, to hate, to resent | |
| 跟 | heel; to accompany, to follow; with | |
| 痕 | scar, mark; vestige, trace | |
| 龈 | gums | |
| 狠 | vicious, fierce, cruel | |
| 垦 | to cultivate, to farm; to reclaim | |
| 垠 | boundary, river bank | |
| 哏 | the clamor of an argument; funny; odd | |
| 很 | very, quite, much | |
| 茛 | ranunculus | |
| 裉 | a garment seam |