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Recommend Offer Radical Ze Head Stroke 薦 セン

Kanji
Onyomi セン
Kunyomi すす.める
Nanori こも
English recommend, mat, advise, encourage, offer
Examples 推薦(すいせん): recommendation; referral; endorsement
薦める(すすめる): to recommend; to advise; to encourage; to offer (wine)
JLPT Level 1
Jouyou Grade S
Frequency 1082
Components 艸: grass; plants; grass radical (no. 140)
广: dotted cliff radical (no. 53)
火: fire
Number of Strokes 16
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 140
Radical Strokes 6
Radical Reading くさ・くさかんむり
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 会意 Compound Ideographic
Keyword recommend
Koohii Story 1 Customer in restaurant asks you (waiter) what you recommend: "I recommend ze deer or ze 'eadless chicken. And I recommend you garnish it wiz some flowers." (let last six strokes = headless chicken).
Koohii Story 2 It is recommended that deers stick to eating flowers. If they try to eat birds, they may end up choking on them, like this one here. Note that the head (白) is gone and the visible part of the body which is normally written with a stroke of the head must by necessity be drawn with a stroke of the tail.
RTK Index 2000

Tags: jlpt.n1, grades, kanjifreq1001-1500

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