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薦

薦

See also: 荐

Translingual

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

Chinese

trad. 薦
simp. 荐

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (薦) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
瀳 *ʔsɯːn, *zɯːns
韉 *ʔsɯːn
薦 *ʔseːns

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

Pronunciation

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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡senH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡senH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sɛnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sɛnH/
Li
Rong		 /t͡senH/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sienH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡sienH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 薦
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsenH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*Cə.tsˤə[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

薦

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Compounds

  • 舉薦／举荐
  • 舉薦征辟／举荐征辟
  • 薦任／荐任
  • 薦寢席／荐寝席
  • 薦席／荐席
  • 薦度／荐度
  • 薦引／荐引
  • 薦拔／荐拔
  • 薦擢／荐擢
  • 薦新祭／荐新祭
  • 薦書／荐书
  • 薦枕／荐枕
  • 薦枕席／荐枕席
  • 薦紳／荐绅
  • 薦臻／荐臻
  • 薦舉／荐举
  • 薦賢／荐贤
  • 薦賢任能／荐贤任能
  • 薦賢舉能／荐贤举能
  • 薦酒／荐酒
  • 薦酹／荐酹
  • 薦頭／荐头
  • 薦頭店／荐头店
  • 薦骨／荐骨
  • 表薦／表荐 (biǎojiàn)
  • 追薦／追荐
  • 饑饉薦臻／饥馑荐臻
  • 饗薦／飨荐
  • 首薦／首荐
  • 鶚薦／鹗荐

Japanese

Kanji

薦

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

薦 (tiến)

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