欠伸

Chinese

		deficient; owe; to lack deficient; owe; to lack; yawn	to stretch; to extend
simp. and trad. (欠伸)		欠	伸
alternative forms		欠申

欠伸

The kanji spelling is jukujikun (熟字訓), borrowed from Chinese 欠伸 (qiànshēn).

For pronunciation and definitions of 欠伸 – see the following entry.

[noun] 欠, 欠伸: [from 901] a yawn, yawning

[verb] to yawn

Alternative spelling
欠

(This term, 欠伸, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Learned borrowing from Chinese 欠伸 (qiànshēn). First attested in the early 1300s writings of Zen monk 明極楚俊 (Minki Soshun), an immigrant to Japan from the Yuan dynasty in China.^[1]

This reading appears to be largely obsolete in modern Japanese, and the term is not listed in all dictionaries.^[2]

欠(けん)伸(しん) • (kenshin) ^{←けんしん (kensin)^?}

^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Hanja in this term
欠	伸

欠伸 • (heumsin) (hangeul 흠신)