勤
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diligent; industrious; hardworking; frequent; regular; constant; (bound form) work; duty; attendance
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 力 +11
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 勤
- Common rank
- #1,179
- Unicode
- U+52E4
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
diligent · Heisig RSH #1239
spinach + muscle
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 勤
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 四体不勤，五谷不分 | never move your four limbs, can't distinguish the five crops (idiom); living as a parasite | |
| 出满勤，干满点 | to be assiduous and work full hours | |
| 地勤人员 | (airport) ground crew | |
| 民勤县 | Minqin, a county in Wuwei City 武威市[Wu3 wei1 Shi4], Gansu | |
| 后勤学 | military logistics | |
| 特种空勤团 | Special Air Service (SAS) | |
| 业精于勤 | mastery of study lies in diligence (idiom). You can only master a subject by assiduous stu… | |
| 总后勤部 | (military) General Logistics Department | |
| 勤务员 | odd job man; army orderly | |
| 地勤 | (aviation) ground services; ground staff | |
| 勤力 | hardworking; diligent | |
| 出勤 | to go to work; to be present (at work, school etc); to be away on business | |
| 特勤 | special duty (e.g. extra security or traffic control on special occasions); person on spec… | |
| 外勤 | work done in the field (rather than in the office or at the headquarters); fieldwork; fiel… | |
| 通勤 | commuting | |
| 空勤 | (aviation) in-flight services; flight crew | |
| 勤务兵 | army orderly | |
| 民勤 | see 民勤縣|民勤县[Min2 qin2 Xian4] | |
| 后勤 | logistics | |
| 全勤 | (of an individual) to have a perfect attendance record; (of a group) to have no absentees |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 堇 — compare how they read.