谨謹 in English

How it used to be written

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

• Bronze script 春秋晚期
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 8 forms

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

Examples

• 守财奴积聚钱财不是因为他谨慎，而是因为他贪婪。

  A miser hoards money not because he is prudent but because he is greedy.

• 我谨记祸不单行。

  I bear in mind that misfortunes never come singly.

All example sentences with 谨