Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- jiàn
- Jiàn
English
- remonstrate, admonish
- surname Jian
- to remonstrate
- to admonish
- to suggest emperors to correct his mistakes in the ancient time
粵語
- 古時規勸君主改正錯誤
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 諫
- 諫言gaan3 jin4
advice
- 進諫zeon3 gaan3
to advise or to urge a monarch or an emperor
- 幾諫gei2 gaan3
to admonish tactfully
- 直諫zik6 gaan3
to admonish sb frankly
- 苦諫fu2 gaan3
to admonish strenuously
- 規諫kwai1 gaan3
to remonstrate
- 諫征gaan3 zing1
to send or go on a punitive expedition
- 諫阻gaan3 zo2
to admonish and dissuade someone not to do something
- 泣諫jap1 gaan3
to counsel a superior in tears indicating absolute sincerity
- 諷諫fung3 gaan3
(literary) to remonstrate with one's superior tactfully
- 諍諫zaang3 gaan3
to criticize frankly
- 諫諍gaan3 zaang3
see 諍諫|诤谏[zheng4 jian4]
- 死諫sei2 gaan3
- 諫書gaan3 syu1
written admonition from an official to his sovereign (old)
- 諫正gaan3 zing3
see 諍諫|诤谏[zheng4 jian4]
- 勸諫hyun3 gaan3
to admonish
- 從諫如流cung4 gaan3 jyu4 lau4
to follow admonition as natural flow (idiom); to accept criticism or correction (even from one's inferiors)
- 拒諫飾非keoi5 gaan3 sik1 fei1
refusing people's good advice and attempting to cover