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Persuade Advice Encouragement Pegasus Persuasion Power 勧 カン、ケン

Kanji
Onyomi カン、ケン
Kunyomi すす.める
English persuade, recommend, advise, encourage, offer
Examples 勧告(かんこく): advice; counsel; remonstrance; recommendation
勧め(すすめ): recommendation; advice; suggestion; encouragement
勧誘(かんゆう): invitation; solicitation; canvassing; canvasing; inducement; persuasion; encouragement
JLPT Level 1
Jouyou Grade S
Frequency 1068
Components 隹: bird; old bird radical (no. 172)
力: power; strength; strong; strain; bear up; exert
Number of Strokes 13
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 19
Radical Strokes 2
Radical Reading ちから・りきづくり
Traditional Form
Classification 形声 Phonetic
Keyword persuade
Koohii Story 1 Mnemonic "pegasus persuasion power". I think of the hippogriff from Harry Potter as being like a pegasus. To befriend a hippogriff, you have to persuade it you mean no harm, you can do this if you have "pegasus persuasion power".
Koohii Story 2 It would take a powerful argument to persuade me Pegasus was real…

Tags: jlpt.n1, grades, kanjifreq1001-1500

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