| 遜る | へりくだる | to deprecate oneself and praise the listener, to abase oneself |
| 謙遜 | けんそん | humble, humility, modesty |
| 謙遜語 | けんそんご | humble language |
| 遜色 | そんしょく | inferiority |
| 遜色がある | そんしょくがある | to be inferior to, to suffer by comparison with (something) |
| 遜色がない | そんしょくがない | bears comparison with (something), compares favorably with (something), compares favourably with (something), isn't inferior to (something) |
| 不遜 | ふそん | arrogance, insolence, disrespect |
| 傲慢不遜 | ごうまんふそん | haughty, arrogant, overbearing |
| 傲岸不遜 | ごうがんふそん | arrogance |
| 尊大不遜 | そんだいふそん | arrogant and presumptuous, haughty arrogance, intolerable insolence |
