荐
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to recommend; to offer sacrifice (arch.); grass; straw mat
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Dict coverage rank #2,429 U+8350
How 荐 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A perennial; grass 艹 that survives 存 year-after-year
How to remember it
recommend · Heisig RSH #1876
flower + 存 deposit
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 荐 as their sound component
These characters all use 荐 (jiàn) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 荐 sound component | jiàn | to recommend; to recur, to repeat |
| 鞯 | jiān | saddle blanket |
Words containing 荐
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 推荐书 | tuī jiàn shū | recommendation letter |
| 推荐信 | tuī jiàn xìn | recommendation letter |
| 荐头店 | jiàn tou diàn | job agency (arch.); employment shop |
| 荐头 | jiàn tou | employment agent (arch.); job broker |
| 自荐 | zì jiàn | to recommend oneself (for a job) |
| 毛遂自荐 | Máo Suì zì jiàn | Mao Sui recommends himself (idiom); to offer one's services (in the style of Mao Sui offer… |
| 力荐 | lì jiàn | to strongly recommend |
| 荐言 | jiàn yán | to recommend (in words); to suggest |
| 草荐 | cǎo jiàn | straw mattress; palliasse |
| 荐骨 | jiàn gǔ | (anatomy) sacrum |
| 推荐 | tuī jiàn | to recommend |
| 引荐 | yǐn jiàn | to recommend sb; to give a referral |
| 荐引 | jiàn yǐn | to introduce; to recommend |
| 举荐 | jǔ jiàn | to recommend |
| 荐举 | jiàn jǔ | to propose (for a job); to nominate; to recommend |
| 追荐 | zhuī jiàn | to pray for the soul of a deceased |
| 章甫荐履 | zhāng fǔ jiàn lǚ | court crown beneath straw shoe (idiom); everything turned upside down |
| 祁奚之荐 | Qí Xī zhī jiàn | Qi Xi's recommendation (idiom); recommending the best person for the job independent of fa… |
| 荐椎 | jiàn zhuī | (anatomy) sacral vertebra; sacrum |
| 饥馑荐臻 | jī jǐn jiàn zhēn | famine repeats unceasingly (idiom, from Book of Songs) |