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劝

quàn

HSK 5 Character Traditional 勸

What 劝 means

1. to advise
2. to urge
3. to try to persuade
4. to exhort
5. to console
6. to soothe

Example sentences

• 我劝你戒酒。
  I advise you to give up drinking.
• 医生劝我戒烟。
  The doctor advised me to stop smoking.
• 我劝了他戒烟。
  I advised him to give up smoking.
• 他劝她去报警。
  She was advised by him to go to the police.
• 他不听我的劝告。
  Tā bù tīng wǒ de quàngào.
  He wouldn't listen to my advice.
• 我们试着劝了他。
  We tried to persuade him.

Words starting with 劝

• 劝说quàn shuōto persuade; persuasion; to advise
• 劝告quàn gàoto advise; to urge; to exhort
• 劝阻quàn zǔto advise against; to dissuade
• 劝慰quàn wèito console
• 劝解quàn jiěconciliation; mediation; to mollify
• 劝导quàn dǎoto advise; to attempt to convince
• 劝酒quàn jiǔto urge sb to drink alcohol
• 劝架quàn jiàto mediate in a quarrel; to intervene in a dispute and try to calm things down
• 劝动quàn dòngto incite
• 劝化quàn huàto exhort (sb) to live a virtuous life (Buddhism); to beg for alms
• 劝和quàn héto mediate; to urge peace
• 劝教quàn jiàoto advise and teach; to persuade and instruct
• 劝服quàn fúto persuade; to convince; to win (sb) over
• 劝止quàn zhǐto dissuade; to persuade sb to desist
• 劝诱quàn yòuto prevail upon; to coax
• 劝农quàn nóng(historical) to encourage farming; to encourage farmers to cultivate the land
• 劝退quàn tuìto try to persuade sb to withdraw (from a job, candidacy, school etc)
• 劝驾quàn jiàto urge sb to accept a post; to urge sb to agree to do sth
• 劝农使quàn nóng shǐcommissioner for the encouragement of agriculture, an official title in imperial China
• 劝善惩恶quàn shàn chéng èto encourage virtue and punish evil (idiom); fig. poetic justice…
• 劝诫quàn jièto exhort; to admonish
• 劝勉quàn miǎnto advise; to encourage
• 劝谏quàn jiànto admonish
• 劝戒quàn jièvariant of 劝诫

Words containing 劝

• 奉劝fèng quànmay I offer a bit of advice
• 规劝guī quànto advise
• 相劝xiāng quànto persuade; to exhort; to advise
• 力劝lì quànto strongly urge
• 哀劝āi quànto persuade by all possible means; to implore
• 听劝tīng quànto heed advice; to listen to counsel
• 解劝jiě quànto soothe; to pacify; to mollify
• 屡劝不听lǚ quàn bù tīng(idiom) refusing to listen to advice or remonstrance; incorrigible
• 哄劝hǒng quànto coax
• 小三劝退师xiǎo sān quàn tuì shīconsultant who breaks up sb's extramarital relationship for a fee
• 禄劝彝族苗族自治县Lù quàn Yí zú Miáo zú Zì zhì xiànLuquan Yi and Miao Autonomous County, in Kunming City 昆明市
• 惩恶劝善chéng è quàn shànsee 惩恶扬善
• 禄劝Lù quànsee 禄劝彝族苗族自治县
• 禄劝县Lù quàn Xiànsee 禄劝彝族苗族自治县

Characters that look like 劝

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 对duìright; correct; towards; at; for; concerning; regarding
• 切qièdefinitely; absolutely (not); (scoffing or dismissive interjection) Yeah, right.; Tut!…
• 功gōngmeritorious deed or service; achievement; result
• 双shuāngtwo; double; pair
• 旧jiùold; opposite: new 新; former
• 幼yòuyoung

Sounds the same

Read quàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 券bond (esp. document split in two, with each party holding one half); contract…