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荐

jiàn

HSK 5 Character Traditional 薦

What 荐 means

1. to recommend
2. to offer sacrifice (arch.)
3. grass
4. straw mat

Example sentences

• 您推荐哪个？
  Which do you recommend?
• 你推荐什幺？
  What do you recommend?
• 我强力推荐它。
  Wǒ qiánglì tuījiàn tā.
  I recommend it strongly.
• 你有什幺推荐？
  What do you recommend to me?
• 您有什幺推荐？
  What do you recommend to me?
• 我推荐这个餐厅。
  I can recommend this restaurant.

Words starting with 荐

• 荐引jiàn yǐnto introduce; to recommend
• 荐举jiàn jǔto propose (for a job); to nominate; to recommend
• 荐言jiàn yánto recommend (in words); to suggest
• 荐头jiàn touemployment agent (arch.); job broker
• 荐头店jiàn tou diànjob agency (arch.); employment shop
• 荐骨jiàn gǔ(anatomy) sacrum
• 荐椎jiàn zhuī(anatomy) sacral vertebra; sacrum

Words containing 荐

• 推荐tuī jiànto recommend
• 推荐信tuī jiàn xìnrecommendation letter
• 自荐zì jiànto recommend oneself (for a job)
• 引荐yǐn jiànto recommend sb; to give a referral
• 举荐jǔ jiànto recommend
• 力荐lì jiànto strongly recommend
• 草荐cǎo jiànstraw mattress; palliasse
• 追荐zhuī jiànto pray for the soul of a deceased
• 推荐书tuī jiàn shūrecommendation letter
• 毛遂自荐Máo Suì zì jiànMao Sui recommends himself (idiom); to offer one's services…
• 章甫荐履zhāng fǔ jiàn lǚcourt crown beneath straw shoe (idiom); everything turned upside down
• 饥馑荐臻jī jǐn jiàn zhēnfamine repeats unceasingly (idiom, from Book of Songs)
• 祁奚之荐Qí Xī zhī jiànQi Xi's recommendation (idiom); recommending the best person for the job independent of…

Characters that look like 荐

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

• 离líto leave; to part from; to be away from
• 莽mǎng(bound form) dense growth of grass; (literary) vast; boundless; (bound form) boorish…
• 屌diǎopenis; (slang) cool or extraordinary; (Cantonese) to fuck
• 禺yú(archaic) district; (old) type of monkey
• 莴wōused in 莴苣; used in 莴笋
• 苒rǎnluxuriant growth; passing (of time)

Sounds the same

Read jiàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 见to see; to meet; to appear (to be sth)
• 件item; component; classifier for events, things, clothes etc
• 健healthy; to invigorate; to strengthen
• 建to establish; to found; to set up
• 键key (on a piano or computer keyboard); button (on a mouse or other device); chemical bond
• 渐gradual; gradually
• 践to fulfill (a promise); to tread; to walk
• 剑double-edged sword; classifier for blows of a sword
• 鉴bronze mirror (used in ancient times); to reflect; to mirror
• 舰warship
• 箭arrow
• 溅to splash