薦 — Chinese character
薦
jiàn
to recommend; to recur, to repeat
- Pinyin
- jiàn
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 17
- Components
- 艹 廌
- Formation
- pictophonetic — perennial grass; meaning component 艹; sound component 廌
- Simplified
- 荐
- Japanese
- 薦 as a kanji
薦 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · I Ching 1 · Mencius 8 · Zhuangzi 2 · Doctrine of the Mean 1
- Analects 10.13
- Hexagram 20
- Mencius 5A.5
- Mencius 5A.6
- Zhuangzi The Identity of Contraries
- Zhuangzi The Universe
- The Doctrine of the Mean Passage 19
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