quàn

to try to persuade; to advise; to urge

Character data

Radical ⼒ (19.17)
Strokes 19
SIMPLIFIED

Definitions

勸 quàn
  1. 1. to try to persuade
  2. 2. to advise
  3. 3. to urge
  4. 4. to exhort
  5. 5. to console
  6. 6. to soothe

Words containing 勸

Word Meaning
to encourage; to advise
to incite
to beg for alms
to advise; advice; to exhort
to mediate; to urge peace
promote good and punish evil; poetic justice
Xunzi’s essay “Encouraging Learning”
to advise; to attempt to convince
to console
variant of quàn jiè
to advise and teach; to persuade and instruct
convince; prevail
to mediate in a quarrel
mediation; to reconcile; conciliation
to coax; to prevail upon
to exhort; to admonish
to persuade; to advise; persuasion
urge and guide farming; promote hard work
to admonish
to promote agriculture
envoy charge with promoting agriculture (in Han dynasty)
to try to persuade sb to give up (their job, plans etc)
to urge sb to drink alcohol
to advise against; to dissuade
to urge sb to agree to do sth; to urge sb to accept a post
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