逊
xùn HSK7

humble

逊 (遜) xùn
modest adjective
showing a modest, yielding, or unpretentious attitude

他为人处事一向谦逊。

tā wéi​rén chǔ​shì yī​xiàng qiān xùn.

He has always been humble in his dealings with others.

suck adjective
(slang) to be poor in quality, ability, or performance; lame

你这招也太逊了吧！

nǐ zhèi zhāo yě tài xùn le ba!

That move of yours was so lame!

abdicate verb
to abdicate a throne or resign from a high position

清帝逊位标志着中国两千多年帝制的终结。

Qīng dì xùn​wèi biāo​zhì zhe Zhōng​guó liǎng​qiān duō nián dì​zhì de zhōng​jié.

The abdication of the Qing Emperor marked the end of over 2,000 years of imperial rule in China.

inferior expression
not as good as; inferior to something or someone else

论棋艺，他比哥哥稍逊一筹。

lùn qí​yì, tā bǐ gē​ge shāo​xùn​yī​chóu.

In terms of chess skills, he is slightly inferior to his brother.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,697th most common 54.0 per million
Movie subtitles
1,483rd most common 44.3 per million appears in 13% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
11.1 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
8.55 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
遜
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+900A

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)