薦

See also 荐

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 艸 (“grass”) + 𢊁 (“bison”)

Han character

薦 (radical 140 艸+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿戈X火 (TIXF), four-corner 4422₇)

1. offer, present
2. recommend

Related characters

• 鹿 (compare 𢊁)

References

• KangXi: page 1062, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32143
• Dae Jaweon: page 1526, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3305, character 11
• Unihan data for U+85A6

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Cantonese

Hanzi

薦 (simplified 荐, Yale jin3)

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Japanese

Kanji

薦 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: せん (sen), しん (shin)
• Kun: すすめる (susumeru), くさよもぎ (kusayomogi), こも (komo)

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Korean

Hanja

薦 (hangeul 천, revised cheon, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏn, Yale chen)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

薦 (simplified 荐, pinyin jiàn (jian4), Wade-Giles chien⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

薦 (tiến)