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推 — 11 strokes ／ Radical「扌」

道
5Elementary year 6 ／ 11 strokes ／ Radical「扌」
On
スイすい · sui
Kun
お(す)o(su)
Meaning
to infer; recommend; push

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

扌 "hand" plus 隹 "bird"; pushing forward by hand — "to push," and by extension "to infer."

OFFICIAL READINGS

Readings and examples

Onスイすいsui推進すいしん推薦すいせん
Kunおすosu推すおす

Compare: 押す

Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 推理すいり

    reasoning; deduction

  • 推薦すいせん

    recommendation

More words with this kanji

  • 推奨すいしょう
  • 推察すいさつ
  • 推測すいそく
  • 推敲すいこう

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

話(はなし)から答(こた)えを推理(すいり)した。

I deduced the answer from the story.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

推理推薦推理reason薦recomm…批to cri…拡to exp…拝to wor…担to sho…探to sea…垂to han…水water吹blow炊cook帥comman…
CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

Map of radical 扌Map of reading スイAll maps

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