薦

See also: 荐

薦 U+85A6, 薦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-85A6 ← 薥 [U+85A5] CJK Unified Ideographs 薧 → [U+85A7]

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 瀳, 𥤆, 𧟆, 𦇩, 䍎, 𨰂, 韉, 𧂑, 𧲛, 𨷳

Related characters

• 鹿 (compare 𢊁)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: 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

Chinese

trad.		薦
simp.		荐*
alternative forms		荐

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
瀳	*ʔsɯːn, *zɯːns
韉	*ʔsɯːn
薦	*ʔseːns

Characters in the same phonetic series (薦) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) and jiajie (假借): 艸 (“grass”) + 廌 (“wild beast”) - "pasture". Later borrowed for sound to mean "recommend".

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
Baxter	tsenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡senH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡senH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sɛnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sɛnH/
Li Rong	/t͡senH/
Wang Li	/t͡sienH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡sienH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zin3

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	薦
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jiàn
Middle Chinese	‹ tsenH ›
Old Chinese	/*Cə.tsˁə[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/

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiàn (jian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zin³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chiàn / chiān

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jiàn
    • Wade–Giles: chien⁴
    • Yale: jyàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiann
    • Palladius: цзянь (czjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zin³
    • Yale: jin
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzin³
    • Guangdong Romanization: jin³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siːn³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiàn
    • Tâi-lô: tsiàn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciexn
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siɛn²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡siɛn¹¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siɛn⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiān
    • Tâi-lô: tsiān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cien
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡siɛn²²/

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• Middle Chinese: tsenH

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*Cə.tsˤə[r]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔseːns/

Definitions

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”).

Compounds

• 保薦 / 保荐 (bǎojiàn)
• 寢薦 / 寝荐
• 引薦 / 引荐 (yǐnjiàn)
• 推薦 / 推荐 (tuījiàn)
• 推薦甄選 / 推荐甄选
• 榮膺鶚薦 / 荣膺鹗荐
• 殷薦
• 毛遂自薦 / 毛遂自荐 (máosuìzìjiàn)
• 潢潦可薦 / 潢潦可荐
• 眾口交薦 / 众口交荐
• 祁奚薦仇 / 祁奚荐仇
• 稱賢薦能 / 称贤荐能
• 稿薦 / 稿荐 (gǎojiàn)
• 自薦 / 自荐 (zìjiàn)
• 舉薦 / 举荐 (jǔjiàn)
• 舉薦征辟
• 薦任 / 荐任 (jiànrèn)
• 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 (jiànzhēn)
• 薦舉 / 荐举 (jiànjǔ)
• 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 (jiàngǔ)
• 表薦 / 表荐 (biǎojiàn)
• 追薦 / 追荐
• 章甫薦履 / 章甫荐履
• 饑饉薦臻 / 饥馑荐臻 (jījǐnjiànzhēn)
• 饗薦 / 飨荐
• 首薦 / 首荐
• 鶚薦 / 鹗荐

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 薦

薦

(Jōyō kanji)

1. recommend, advise
2. mat

Readings

• 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)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

薦: Hán Nôm readings: tiến

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