勧
persuade, recommend, advise, encourage, offer
Readings
On'yomi
- カン
- ケン
Kun'yomi
- すす.める
Meaning
勧 centers on urging someone toward a positive action: persuading, recommending, advising, encouraging, or offering an option.
Most common words using 勧
20 of 46- お勧めおすすめN3
recommendation; advice; suggestion; encouragement
- 勧めるすすめるN3
to recommend (someone to do); to advise; to encourage; to urge
- 勧誘かんゆうN1
invitation; solicitation; canvassing; canvasing; inducement; persuasion; encouragement
- 勧告かんこくN1
advice; counsel; remonstrance; recommendation
- 勧善懲悪かんぜんちょうあく
rewarding good and punishing evil; poetic justice
- 勧奨かんしょう
encouragement; stimulation
- 勧請かんじょう
praying for the coming of a deity
- 勧進かんじん
temple solicitation
- 勧業かんぎょう
(encouragement of) industry
- 勧めすすめN1
recommendation; advice; suggestion; encouragement
- 勧進帳かんじんちょう
temple solicitation book
- 不招請勧誘ふしょうせいかんゆう
unsolicited promotion
- 保険勧誘員ほけんかんゆういん
insurance salesman (saleswoman)
- 切に勧めるせつにすすめる
to urge strongly
- 劇場型勧誘げきじょうがたかんゆう
advertising fraudulent investment schemes with glossy brochures, phone calls, etc.
- 勧化かんげ
religious-fund soliciting; Buddhist preaching
- 勧告案かんこくあん
recommendation
- 勧告状かんこくじょう
letter of advice
- 勧告者かんこくしゃ
adviser; advisor; counselor; counsellor
- 勧善かんぜん
rewarding good deeds
Study
Etymology
勧 combines 力 (strength, effort) with a phonetic element derived from 雚 (a type of bird), which contributed the sound and the idea of urging or encouraging.
Meaning mnemonic
The right side is 力 (power, effort). The left side looks like a bird (隹) over a small base. Imagine using effort to urge a bird to fly: you persuade and encourage it to take off.
Reading mnemonic
For カン, imagine a can of energy drink being offered to persuade someone: can -> カン, and the effort (力) encourages them to act.