Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- shèn
English
- act with care, be cautious
- careful
- cautious
- careful; cautious
粵語
- 認真、小心、細心
Variants
Words containing 慎
- 謹慎gan2 san6
cautious
- 慎重san6 zung6
cautious
- 審慎sam2 san6
prudent; cautious
- 不慎bat1 san6
incautious
- 慎言san6 jin4
to speak cautiously
- 慎密san6 mat6
cautious
- 慎防san6 fong4
to beware; to be careful of; to be particularly aware of
- 慎獨san6 duk6
to preserve a proper behavior in private life
- 戒慎gaai3 san6
vigilant
- 慎入san6 jap6
keep away!
- 失慎sat1 san6
- 許慎heoi2 san6
Xu Shen (-147) the compiler of the original Han dynasty dictionary Shuowen Jiezi 說文解字|说文解字[Shuo1 wen2 Jie3 zi4]
- 肅慎suk1 san6
ancient ethnic group of northeast frontier of China
- 恪慎kok3 san6
careful
- 謹小慎微gan2 siu2 san6 mei4
meticulous; punctilious
- 慎重其事san6 zung6 kei4 si6
to treat a matter with due consideration (idiom)
- 小心謹慎siu2 sam1 gan2 san6
cautious and timid (idiom); prudent
- 慎重從事san6 zung6 cung4 si6
- 王慎德wong4 san6 dak1
Russell Girard Wong, an American actor
- 審慎行事sam2 san6 hang4 si6
to act prudently
- 慎終追遠san6 zung1 zeoi1 jyun5
to pay careful attention to one's parents' funerary rites
- 謹言慎行gan2 jin4 san6 hang4
to be cautious with one's own words and actions
- 石原慎太郎sek6 jyun4 san6 taai3 long4
Ishihara Shintarō (1932-), Japanese author and politician, governor of Tokyo 1999-2012
- 落筆審慎lok6 bat1 sam2 san6