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薦

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See also: 荐
薦 U+85A6, 薦
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-85A6
← 薥
[U+85A5] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 薧 →
[U+85A7]

Translingual

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Han character

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薦 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 廿戈難火 (TIXF), four-corner 44227, composition ⿱艹廌)

Derived characters

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Additional Derived Characters
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References

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

Chinese

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trad. 薦
simp. 荐*
alternative forms 荐

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character 薦
Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (薦) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
瀳 *ʔsɯːn, *zɯːns
韉 *ʔsɯːn
薦 *ʔseːns

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) and jiajie (假借): 艸 (“grass”) + 廌 (“wild beast”) - "pasture". Later borrowed for sound to mean "recommend".

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character 薦
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 先 (85)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 作甸切
Baxter tsenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡senH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡senH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡sɛnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/t͡sɛnH/
Li
Rong 		/t͡senH/
Wang
Li 		/t͡sienH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/t͡sienH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		jiàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zin3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 薦
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		jiàn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsenH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*Cə.tsˁə[r]-s/
English grass, fodder

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 薦
Reading # 1/1
No. 6253
Phonetic
component 		薦
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		薦
Old
Chinese 		/*ʔseːns/

Definitions

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薦

  1. to offer; to present
  2. to recommend; to suggest; to endorse
    推薦／推荐  ―  tuījiàn  ―  to recommend
  3. (literary) to sacrifice
  4. (literary) sacrifice; offering
  5. (alt. form 荐) fodder grass
  6. (alt. form 荐) straw mat
  7. (alt. form 荐) repeatedly
  8. (anatomy) Alternative name for 骶 (dǐ, “sacrum”).

Compounds

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References

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  • “薦”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
  • 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “荐”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 218.

Japanese

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Kanji

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薦

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. recommend, advise
  2. mat

Readings

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

References

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Korean

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Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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薦: Hán Nôm readings: tiến

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