quàn

recommend, advise, urge

DEFINITIONS

  • recommend, advise, urge
  • to advise
  • to urge
  • to try to persuade
  • to exhort
  • to console
  • to soothe

WORDS

勉 quàn miǎn to advise; to encourage
動 quàn dòng to incite
化 quàn huà to exhort (sb) to live a virtuous life (Buddhism); to beg for alms
告 quàn gào to advise; to urge; to exhort; exhortation; advice; CL:席[xi2]
和 quàn hé to mediate; to urge peace
善懲惡 quàn shàn chéng è to encourage virtue and punish evil (idiom); fig. poetic justice; you get what's coming to you
學 quàn xué On learning, classic book by Confucian philosopher Xun Zi 荀子 (c. 310-237 BC)
導 quàn dǎo to advise; to attempt to convince
慰 quàn wèi to console
戒 quàn jiè variant of 勸誡|劝诫[quan4 jie4]
教 quàn jiào to advise and teach; to persuade and instruct
服 quàn fú prevail; convince
架 quàn jià to mediate in a quarrel; to intervene in a dispute and try to calm things down
解 quàn jiě conciliation; mediation; to mollify; to propitiate; to reconcile
誘 quàn yòu to prevail upon; to coax
誡 quàn jiè to exhort; to admonish
說 quàn shuō to persuade; persuasion; to advise
課 quàn kè to encourage and supervise (esp. state officials promoting agriculture)
諫 quàn jiàn to admonish
農 quàn nóng to promote agriculture
農使 quàn nóng shǐ envoy charge with promoting agriculture (in Han dynasty)
退 quàn tuì to try to persuade sb to give up (their job, plans etc)
酒 quàn jiǔ to urge sb to drink alcohol
阻 quàn zǔ to advise against; to dissuade
駕 quàn jià to urge sb to accept a post; to urge sb to agree to do sth
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