in English

kěn
earnest

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 懇, the traditional character: 恳 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

  • Small seal script: 懇 Small seal script
  • Clerical script: 懇 Clerical script

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • 他恳求我留下来。

    He begged me to stay.

  • 我恳求您了。

    I beg you.

All example sentences with 恳

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