荐

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See also: 薦
荐 U+8350, 荐
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8350
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 荑 →

Translingual

Han character

荐 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+6, 10 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 9 strokes in simplified Chinese and Japanese, cangjie input 廿大中木 (TKLD), four-corner 44247, composition ⿱艹存)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1031, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30951
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1490, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3201, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+8350

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (存) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
荐 *zlɯːns
洊 *zlɯːns
臶 *zlɯːns, *zluːns
栫 *zlɯːns, *zluːns
袸 *zlɯːns, *zluːn
存 *zluːn
拵 *zluːn

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *zlɯːns) : semantic 艸 + phonetic 存 (OC *zluːn).

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 荐 – see 薦 (“to offer; to present; to recommend; to suggest; to endorse; etc.”).
(This character is the simplified and variant form of 薦).
Notes:

Etymology 2

trad. 荐
simp. # 荐
alternative forms 薦

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-tswa-n (“grass”); cognate with Tibetan རྩྭ (rtswa, “grass”) (STEDT).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 荐
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 從 (15)
Final (韻) 先 (85)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 在甸切
Baxter dzenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/d͡zenH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/d͡zenH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/d͡zɛnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/d͡zɛnH/
Li
Rong 		/d͡zenH/
Wang
Li 		/d͡zienH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/d͡zʱienH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		jiàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zin6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 荐 荐
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		jiàn jiàn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ dzenH › ‹ dzenH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*N-tsˁə-s/ /*ˁə-s/
English grass, herb twice; a second time

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 荐
Reading # 1/1
No. 1900
Phonetic
component 		存
Rime
group 		文
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		荐
Old
Chinese 		/*zlɯːns/

Definitions

荐

  1. straw mat
  2. fodder grass
  3. repeatedly
  4. ‡ to gather
  5. Alternative form of 薦 / 荐 (jiàn, “to recommend”)
Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

荐

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): せん (sen)、ぜん (zen)
  • Kun: しきりに (shikirini)

Korean

Hanja

荐 • (cheon, geon) (hangeul 천, 건, revised cheon, geon, McCune–Reischauer ch'ŏn, kŏn, Yale chen, ken)

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Vietnamese

Han character

荐: Hán Nôm readings: tiến

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References

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