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薦

Recommend
Stroke count: 16

Readings

On readingセン
Kun readingすす.める
JLPT level: N1JōyōGrade 8Level 34

Verbs with «薦»

お薦めする推薦する

Meanings

  1. recommendRtK
  2. suggest
  1. woven straw mat (orig. made of wild rice leaves)
  2. beggar
  3. manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia)

Popular Usage

推薦

Radicals and components

Radical艸grass
Components
How it's built
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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flowers (艹) · deer · cave · antlers · slingshot · catapult · tail feathers

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 2156

Compound words

推薦すいせん
recommendation; referral; endorsement
お薦めするおすすめする
to recommend
自薦じせん
self-recommendation; self-nomination; putting oneself forward
他薦たせん
recommendation (by others)
薦めすすめ
recommendation
薦骨せんこつ
sacrum
薦書せんしょ
letter of recommendation
薦筵こもむしろ
mat of woven wild rice leaves
お薦めおすすめ
recommendation
御薦めおすすめ
recommendation
推薦者すいせんしゃ
recommender
推薦状すいせんじょう
letter of invitation
薦めるすすめる
to recommend (someone to do)
推薦するすいせんする
to recommend

Additional Examples

彼は私にこの辞書を推薦してくれた。
He recommended this dictionary to me.tatoeba
彼はあなたをよい地位に推薦するだろう。
He will recommend you for a good post.tatoeba
彼の推薦のおかげで、私は東京の大学で教鞭をとることが出来た。
Thanks to his recommendation, I was able to get a teaching job at a college in Tokyo.tatoeba
大統領候補者として推薦されていた。
He was being groomed as a presidential candidate.tatoeba

Stroke Order

16 strokes

Recommend. 艹 (grass) + 廌 (a sacred beast) — grass for a sacred animal: the best. 推薦 — recommendation.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 薦

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step