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推

推

See also: 稚

Translingual

Han character

推 (radical 64 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手人土 (QOG), four-corner 50014, composition ⿰扌隹)

References

  • KangXi: page 439, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12284
  • Dae Jaweon: page 790, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1898, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+63A8

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 推

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (隹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蜼 *lus, *rulʔ, *luls
堆 *tuːl
嵟 *tuːl
碓 *tuːls
推 *tʰuːl, *tʰjul
蓷 *tʰuːl, *tʰjul
陮 *duːlʔ
魋 *duːl
嶊 *stuːlʔ
崔 *zluːl, *sʰluːl
猚 *ŋreːl, *rulʔ
椎 *dul
顀 *dul
隹 *tjul
錐 *tjul
萑 *kljul
騅 *tjul
鵻 *sɢʷinʔ, *tjul
誰 *djul
脽 *djul

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tʰuːl, *tʰjul) : semantic 扌 ‎(“hand”) + phonetic 隹 ‎(OC *tjul) – push with the hand.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 推
Mandarin Beijing /tʰuei⁵⁵/
Harbin /tʰuei⁴⁴/
Tianjin /tʰuei²¹/
Jinan /tʰuei²¹³/
Qingdao /tʰue²¹³/
Zhengzhou /tʰuei²⁴/
Xi'an /tʰuei²¹/
Xining /tʰuɨ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /tʰuei⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /tʰuei³¹/
Ürümqi /tʰuei⁴⁴/
Wuhan /tʰei⁵⁵/
Chengdu /tʰuei⁵⁵/
Guiyang /tʰuei⁵⁵/
Kunming /tʰuei⁴⁴/
Nanjing /tʰuəi³¹/
Hefei /tʰe²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /tʰuei¹¹/
Pingyao /tʰuæ¹³/
Hohhot /tʰuei³¹/
Wu Shanghai /tʰe⁵³/
Suzhou /tʰe̞⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /tʰui³³/
Wenzhou /tʰai³³/
Hui Shexian /tʰɛ³¹/
Tunxi /tʰə¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /tʰei³³/
Xiangtan /tʰəi³³/
Gan Nanchang /tʰui⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /tʰui⁴⁴/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /tʰøy⁵³/
Nanning /tʰui⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /tʰøy⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /tʰui⁵⁵/
/tu⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /tʰøy⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /tʰo⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡sʰui³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /sui²³/
/he²³/
Rime
Character 推 推
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 初 (19) 透 (6)
Final (韻) 脂 (16) 灰 (42)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) III I
Fanqie 叉隹切 他回切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ʃʰiuɪ/ /tʰuʌi/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʈ͡ʂʰʷi/ /tʰuoi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ʃʰjuɪ/ /tʰuɒi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʈ͡ʂʰwi/ /tʰwəj/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ʃʰui/ /tʰuᴀi/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ʃʰwi/ /tʰuɒi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʈ͡ʂʰwi/ /tʰuɑ̆i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 ch- tuī
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 推
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 tuī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ thwoj ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tʰˤuj/
English push away

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 推 推
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 17708 17724
Phonetic
component		 隹 隹
Rime
group		 微 微
Rime
subdivision		 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 𨌴
Old
Chinese		 /*tʰuːl/ /*tʰjul/
Notes 由叉隹切校正

Definitions

推

  1. to push
  2. to postpone; to delay
  3. to prompt; to propel
  4. to infer; to deduce

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

推

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. conjecture

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

推 • ‎(chu, toe) (hangeul 추, 퇴, McCune-Reischauer ch'u, t'oe, Yale chwu, thoy)

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Vietnamese

Han character

推 (suy, chui, thoi, thòi, thôi, tòi)

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