jiàn
recommend
Original meaning:
pasture, straw mat
Depicts an animal (廌) eating grass (艹) in a pasture. Based on the original meaning "pasture, straw mat". The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 薦
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to recommend | ||
recommendation letter | ||
to recommend sb | ||
to recommend oneself (for a job) | ||
grass |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*Cə.tsˤə[r]-s | tsenH | jiàn | grass, fodder |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 8.9220% of movies
2111th most common character in movies
2367th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+85A6 |
Shuowen | “薦，獸之所食艸。从廌，从艸。古者神人以廌遺黃帝，帝曰：‘何食？何處？’曰：‘食薦；夏處水澤，冬處松柏。’” |
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