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推

tuī

push

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 隹 represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

隹 sound component

隹  Sound component

zhuī

  

bird

Evolution

推 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
推 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
推 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
推 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
推 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

推  

tuī

push, expel; push forward; 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

Most common words with 推
Freq.
Word
Meaning

推

to push

推荐

to recommend

推出

to push out

推进

to impel

推动

to promote

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tʰˤuj

thwoj

tuī

push away


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 50.2643% of movies

856th most common character in movies

505th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+63A8

Shuowen

“推，排也。从手，隹聲。”


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