薦
薦 — cheon
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 천거할 천
- Romanization
- cheon
- English
- offer, present; recommend
- Mandarin
- jiàn
- Japanese on'yomi
- セン, シン
- Japanese kun'yomi
- すす.める
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #1,082 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 艸 (140, 13 residual)
- Unicode
- U+85A6
How 薦 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 薦 as a ideographic compound involving 艸, 廌.
Korean example words with 薦
- 천주薦主 Korean gloss: 어떤 사람을 추천하여 준 사람
- 선천宣薦 Korean gloss: 새로 무과에 급제한 사람 가운데에서 선전관의 후보자를 천거하던 일
- 천달하다薦達 Korean gloss: 천거하여 올리다
- 특천하다特薦 Korean gloss: 특별히 추천하다
- 낙천하다落薦 Korean gloss: 후보자의 추천이나 천거에서 떨어지다
- 묘천하다廟薦 Korean gloss: 의정부에서 어떤 사안이나 사람을 추천하다
- 추천하다推薦 Korean gloss: 어떤 조건에 적합한 대상을 책임지고 소개하다
- 사천하다私薦 Korean gloss: 공인된 정당에서 선거에 출마할 당원을 사사로이 추천하다
- 천거되다薦擧 Korean gloss: 어떤 일을 맡아 할 수 있는 사람이 그 자리에 쓰이도록 소개되거나 추천되다
- 추천서推薦書 Korean gloss: 추천의 내용을 담은 글
- 추천장推薦狀 Korean gloss: 추천의 내용을 담은 글
- 추천권推薦權 Korean gloss: 추천을 할 수 있는 권리
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 薦
- 推薦すいせん recommendation; referral; endorsement
- 自薦じせん self-recommendation; self-nomination; putting oneself forward
- 他薦たせん recommendation (by others)
- 薦こも woven straw mat (orig. made of wild rice leaves); beggar; Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia)
- 薦挙せんきょ recommendation
- 蒲薦ほせん bulrush mat
- 薦僧こもそう mendicant Zen priest of the Fuke sect
- 御薦おこも beggar
- 荒薦あらごも loosely woven mat of wild rice leaves
- 奏薦そうせん recommendation to the throne
- 推薦者すいせんしゃ recommender; nominator; referee
- 推薦状すいせんじょう letter of invitation; letter of recommendation; reference
Other hanja read “천”
Other hanja with radical 艸
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences