I spend a lot of time commuting.
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勤
Traditional: 懃
qín
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qín · kan4 (Jyutping)
- diligent; industrious; hardworking
- frequent; regular; constant
- (bound form) work; duty; attendance
- (literary) diligent; industrious; hardworking (variant of 勤[qin2])
- (literary) solicitous; attentive
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Character breakdown
Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3. Make Me a Hanzi · LGPL 3+. Interactive stroke order is available in the study tools.
Example sentences
I wish he would write more often.
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