勸

See also 劝, and 勧

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 雚 + semantic 力 (“strength”)

Han character

勸 (radical 19 力+17, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿土大尸 (TGKS), four-corner 4422₇)

1. recommend, advise, urge

References

• KangXi: page 150, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2486
• Dae Jaweon: page 338, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 382, character 18
• Unihan data for U+52F8

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Cantonese

Hanzi

勸 (simplified 劝, Yale hyun3)

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Japanese

Kanji

勸

Readings

• On: かん (kan), けん (ken)
• Kun: すすめる (susumeru)

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Korean

Hanja

勸 (hangeul 권, revised gwon, McCune-Reischauer kwŏn)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

勸 (simplified 劝, pinyin quàn (quan4), zhuó (zhuo2), Wade-Giles ch'üan⁴, cho²)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

勸 (*kiuæ̀n)

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Vietnamese

Han character

勸 (khuyến, khuyên)