quàn
recommend
Phonosemantic compound. 力 represents the meaning and 雚 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 勸
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to advise | ||
to persuade | ||
to advise | ||
to dissuade | ||
may I offer a bit of advice |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.qʷʰar-s | khjwonH | quàn | encourage |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 10.5879% of movies
2027th most common character in movies
1562nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+52F8 |
Shuowen | “勸，勉也。从力，雚聲。” |
Sources
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