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(Trad.: 薦)
Pinyin: jiàn
English Definition: to recommend; to offer sacrifice (arch.); grass; straw mat
Chinese Definition:
①推举,介绍:推荐。举荐。荐擢。
②频仍,屡次:荐仍(一再)。荐饥(连年饥荒)。荐食(一再吞食,喻不断侵略)。荐臻(接连来到)。
③进献,祭献:荐羞(进献肴馔)。荐新(以初熟谷物或时鲜果物祭献)。荐胙(供献鬼神的肉)。
④草:“麋鹿食荐”。
⑤草席,垫子:草荐。棕荐。
Total strokes: 9; Radical:
Ideographic: A perennial; grass that survives year-after-year
Character Formation:
  • Above to below
    • [ cǎo ] grass, weed, plant, herb
    • [ cún ] to exist; to survive, to maintain; to keep, to store; to deposit
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Example Words
推荐 tuī jiàn to recommend; recommendation
举荐 jiàn to recommend
自荐 jiàn to recommend oneself (for a job)
引荐 yǐn jiàn to recommend sb; to give a referral
毛遂自荐 máo suì jiàn Mao Sui recommends himself (idiom); to offer one's services (in the style of Mao Sui offering his services to king of Chu of the Warring states)
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Example Sentences
1
What flavor of boxed lunch do you like? I recommend this restaurant's sweet and sour spare rib box lunch.
2
If you want to achieve your goal, you must show the spirit of volunteering.
3
This book is very interesting, I recommend you to read it too.
4
The waiter will be happy to recommend a good red wine for you.
5
Recommended by outstanding students, he was admitted as a PhD candidate.