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

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

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

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

Pronunciation

• 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

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/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sienH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zin3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*Cə.tsˤə[r]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔseːns/

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/

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
• 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

薦

(common “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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