薦

Meaning

薦 centers on putting something forward for consideration or use: recommending a person, advising a course of action, or offering something like a mat for sitting. The mat sense is a concrete object placed under someone, which extends naturally to the idea of presenting or supporting.

• 推薦すいせん
  N3

  recommendation; referral; endorsement

• 自薦じせん

  self-recommendation; self-nomination; putting oneself forward

• 他薦たせん

  recommendation (by others)

• 薦こも

  woven straw mat (orig. made of wild rice leaves)

• 奏薦そうせん

  recommendation to the throne

• 御薦おこも

  beggar

• 指定校推薦していこうすいせん

  designated school recommendation; recommendation for admission from a school designated by the university

• 推薦人すいせんにん

  recommender; nominator; referee

• 推薦入学すいせんにゅうがく

  admission based on recommendation; enrolment by recommendation (enrollment)

• 推薦入試すいせんにゅうし

  entrance examination for selected candidates (who have been recommended to the university)

• 推薦図書すいせんとしょ

  recommended books; recommended reading

• 推薦書すいせんしょ

  recommendation; nomination

• 推薦枠すいせんわく

  (university) admission category for recommended candidates

• 推薦状すいせんじょう

  letter of invitation; letter of recommendation; reference

• 推薦者すいせんしゃ

  recommender; nominator; referee

• 荒薦あらごも

  loosely woven mat of wild rice leaves

• 蒲薦ほせん

  bulrush mat

• 薦僧こもそう

  mendicant Zen priest of the Fuke sect

• 薦挙せんきょ

  recommendation

• 薦被りこもかぶり

  cask wrapped in straw matting

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