漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food
薦: recommend, mat
Also: advise, encourage, offer
JLPT N116 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
艹 carries the meaning · 广 and 灬 are drawn in
16 strokes
Bronze · Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Bronze and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
センsen · on'yomi · in compounds
- 推薦すいせん
- 自薦じせんself-recommendation; self-nomination
- 他薦たせんrecommendation (by others)
すすめるsusumeru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 薦めるすすめるto recommend (a book, someone for a…
Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Grass growing on top! Like a green crown upon the earth, this radical sits above kanji related to flowers, herbs, and vegetation.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified 荐 · traditional, as in Japanese · jiàn
Japan keeps the traditional form 薦; mainland China simplifies it to 荐.
- Simplified
- 荐 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 薦 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jiàn 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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