薦

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

• 瀳, 𥤆, 𧟆, 𦇩, 䍎, 𨰂, 韉, 𧂑, 𧲛, 𨷳

• 鹿 (compare 𢊁)

• 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

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

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”).

(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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