薦

薦 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 廿戈X火 (TIXF), four-corner 4422₇, composition ⿱艹廌)

• 瀳 韉 䍎

• 鹿 (compare 𢊁)

• KangXi: page 1062, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32143
• Dae Jaweon: page 1526, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3305, character 11
• Unihan data for U+85A6

Historical forms of the character 薦
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

薦

1. to offer; to present

   • 寄意寒星荃不察，我以我血薦軒轅。 [MSC, trad.]
     寄意寒星荃不察，我以我血荐轩辕。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: around 1903, by 魯迅 [Lu Xun],《自題小像》

     Jì yì hán xīng quán bù chá, wǒ yǐ wǒ xuè jiàn Xuānyuán. [Pinyin]

     A cold star might convey men's will, but the Chinese people lacks judgment still；So I shall offer my blood up for Xuan Yuan，our progenitor.

2. to recommend; to suggest; to endorse

   推薦／推荐  ―  tuījiàn  ―  to recommend

3. (literary) to sacrifice
4. (literary) sacrifice; offering
5. (alt. form 荐) fodder grass
6. (alt. form 荐) straw mat
7. (alt. form 荐) repeatedly
8. (anatomy) Alternative name for 骶 (dǐ, “sacrum”).

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. recommend, advise
2. mat

• On (unclassified): せん (sen, Jōyō); しん (shin)
• Kun: すすめる (susumeru, 薦める, Jōyō); くさよもぎ (kusayomogi); こも (komo)

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

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薦: Hán Nôm readings: tiến

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