推甄 Origin — Chinese Character Wiki

tuīzhēn

recommendation admission

tuī push

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

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

隹 Sound component

zhuī, cuī, wéi bird

Character Evolution

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	thwoj	tʰˤuj	push away

說文解字

《說文》：“推，排也。从手，隹聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

zhēn, zhèn, juàn to examine

Phonosemantic compound. 瓦 represents the meaning and 垔 represents the sound.

Components

瓦 Meaning component

wǎ earthenware

垔 Sound component

yīn dam up, block, restrain

Character Evolution

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tsyin	t.qi[n]	potter"s wheel
Zhengzhang		ken
		kin
Unicode	gyɛn

說文解字

匋也。从瓦垔聲。

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

推 tuī push

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Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

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甄 zhēn, zhèn, juàn to examine

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Character Evolution

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說文解字

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tuī push

zhēn, zhèn, juàn to examine