荐

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to recommend; to offer sacrifice (arch.); grass; straw mat

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Formation & memory

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Ideographic compound (会意字)

A perennial; grass 艹 that survives 存 year-after-year

Components 艹存

recommend · Heisig RSH #1876

flower + 存 deposit

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

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

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
推荐书	tuī jiàn shū	recommendation letter
推荐信	tuī jiàn xìn	recommendation letter
荐头店	jiàn tou diàn	job agency (arch.); employment shop
荐头	jiàn tou	employment agent (arch.); job broker
自荐	zì jiàn	to recommend oneself (for a job)
毛遂自荐	Máo Suì zì jiàn	Mao Sui recommends himself (idiom); to offer one's services (in the style of Mao Sui offer…
力荐	lì jiàn	to strongly recommend
荐言	jiàn yán	to recommend (in words); to suggest
草荐	cǎo jiàn	straw mattress; palliasse
荐骨	jiàn gǔ	(anatomy) sacrum
推荐	tuī jiàn	to recommend
引荐	yǐn jiàn	to recommend sb; to give a referral
荐引	jiàn yǐn	to introduce; to recommend
举荐	jǔ jiàn	to recommend
荐举	jiàn jǔ	to propose (for a job); to nominate; to recommend
追荐	zhuī jiàn	to pray for the soul of a deceased
章甫荐履	zhāng fǔ jiàn lǚ	court crown beneath straw shoe (idiom); everything turned upside down
祁奚之荐	Qí Xī zhī jiàn	Qi Xi's recommendation (idiom); recommending the best person for the job independent of fa…
荐椎	jiàn zhuī	(anatomy) sacral vertebra; sacrum
饥馑荐臻	jī jǐn jiàn zhēn	famine repeats unceasingly (idiom, from Book of Songs)

These characters use 荐 as their sound component — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
荐 sound part	jiàn	to recommend; to recur, to repeat
鞯	jiān	saddle blanket