推

Tap the pinyin to hear it

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

Sound it out + =

Formation & memory

Break the character into parts you already know.

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

扌 meaning “hand” + 隹 sound ( zhuī )

Components 扌隹

push · Heisig RSH #600

fingers + turkey

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
推车发动	tuī chē fā dòng	to push-start (a car)
推动力	tuī dòng lì	driving force
推拉门	tuī lā mén	sliding door
手推车	shǒu tuī chē	trolley; cart; barrow; handcart; wheelbarrow; baby buggy
推理小说	tuī lǐ xiǎo shuō	murder mystery (novel); whodunit
外推法	wài tuī fǎ	extrapolation (math.); to extrapolate
推土机	tuī tǔ jī	bulldozer
推子	tuī zi	hair clippers
推头	tuī tóu	to clip hair; to have a haircut
推心	tuī xīn	to treat sincerely; to confide in
地推	dì tuī	on-the-ground promotion (abbr. for 地面推廣\|地面推广[di4 mian4 tui1 guang3])
推动	tuī dòng	to push (e.g. for acceptance of a plan); to promote; to give impetus to
推重比	tuī zhòng bǐ	thrust-to-weight ratio
推行	tuī xíng	to implement; to carry out; to introduce (a policy, system, reform etc); to promote; to ad…
推手	tuī shǒu	promoter; advocate; driving force; pushing hands (two-person training routine esp. in t'ai…
推进机	tuī jìn jī	see 推進器\|推进器[tui1 jin4 qi4]
公推	gōng tuī	elected by acclamation; recommended by all
推力	tuī lì	driving force; impetus; thrust (of a boat or airplane engine); repelling force
无罪推定	wú zuì tuī dìng	presumption of innocence (law)
推文	tuī wén	a post on X (formerly Twitter); article posted to subscribers' feeds (on WeChat etc); (HK,…

Characters sharing the sound component 隹 — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
隹 sound part	zhuī	short-tailed bird; sparrow
维	wéi	to preserve, to maintain, to hold together
准	zhǔn	standard, accurate; to permit, to approve, to allow
堆	duī	crowd, heap, pile, mass; to pile up; measure word for things in piles or stacks
锥	zhuī	gimlet, drill, awl; to drill, to bore
淮	huái	a river in Anhui province
椎	zhuī	spine, vertebra; hammer, mallet
稚	zhì	young, immature; childhood
谁	shéi	who? whom? whose? anyone?
濯	zhuó	to cleanse, to rinse, to wash out
睢	suī	to gaze at, to stare at; uninhibited
帷	wéi	curtain, screen, tent
擢	zhuó	to pull up, to raise; to select
槜	zuì	white plum
骓	zhuī	piebald horse
碓	duì	pestle
萑	huán	grass, hay, straw