漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
勧: persuade, recommend
Also: advise, encourage, offer
JLPT N113 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
- 雚(sound)
- 力power(meaning)
力 carries the meaning · 雚 gives the sound
13 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
カンkan · on'yomi · in compounds
- 勧告するかんこくするadvise
- 勧誘するかんゆうするsolicit, recruit
- 勧告かんこく
- 勧誘かんゆう
- 勧奨かんしょうencouragement; stimulation
すすめるsusumeru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 勧めるすすめるrecommend
- 勧めすすめrecommendation; advice; suggestion
Also read ケン, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Flex your arm and feel the power! That's 力, representing the raw muscle and effort required to change the world.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side勧 persuade · 力
vs歓 delight · 欠In ChineseSimplified 劝 · traditional 勸 · quàn
Three different forms: Japanese 勧, simplified 劝, traditional 勸.
- Simplified
- 劝 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 勸 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin quàn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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