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Kanji Detail for 推 - "to push, to recommend, to infer"

推

  • Meaning

    推 means "to push, to recommend, to infer."

    1. Push - To press forward; to advance.

    2. Recommend - To suggest; to endorse.

    3. Infer - To deduce; to conjecture.

  • Words using 推

    • 推進 すいしん Listen propulsion; drive; promotion (of a policy, project, movement, etc.)
    • 推定 すいてい Listen presumption; assumption; estimation
    • 推移 すいい Listen transition; change; progress
    • 推計 すいけい Listen estimate; estimation
    • 推理 すいり Listen reasoning; inference; deduction
    • 推測 すいそく Listen guess; conjecture
    • 推す おす Listen to recommend; to endorse (e.g. a candidate); to nominate
    • 推理小説 すいりしょうせつ Listen mystery novel; detective novel; whodunit

  • Four-character idioms with 推

    • 月下推敲 げっかすいこう Listen polish; elaboration; repeatedly working over one's writing

  • Tattoo check: 推

    • Verified meaning: to push, to recommend, to infer
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    conjecture; infer; guess; suppose; support; push (for)

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    push, expel; push forward

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to push; to cut; to refuse; to reject; to decline; to shirk (responsibility); to put off; to delay; to push forward; to nominate; to elect; massage

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to push; to expel; to drive; to decline

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Pushing forward with hands. Such as 推輓. | To shift. Such as 推陳出新. | Giving one's possessions to others is 推. Such as 解衣推食. See (Records of the Grand Historian). Now, mutual yielding is 推. | To decline. To shirk. Such as 推辭, 推卻. | To select. To present. Such as 公推, 推舉. | To examine. Such as 推求, 推詳.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    sui(スイ) スイ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    o.su(おす) おす

  • Strokes

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    11 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    手 扌 (te・tehen)

  • Related Keywords

    push recommend infer change consider spread out advocate advance boost champion conjecture deduce drive encourage endorse force forward press propel suggest support

Sentences including 推

  • We went ahead with the plan for the party.

  • Your guess is wrong.

  • Can you recommend a good dictionary to me?

  • The teacher recommended this dictionary to us.

  • I can recommend this book to you.

  • We began to see what we can deduce from it.

  • I like reading mysteries.

  • Is there any place you recommend?

  • He recommended this dictionary to me.

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