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Mythic Mandarin

推举 (tuī jǔ): meaning and stroke order

推举 (tuī jǔ) means to nominate as a worthy candidate; to recommend, to elect; to choose.

推举

Simplified
推举
Traditional
推舉
Pinyin
tuī jǔ

Stroke order of 推举

推

  • tuī to push; to cut
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

举

  • jǔ variant of 舉|举[ju3]
  • jǔ to lift; to hold up
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 擧

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 推举

  1. tuī jǔ Traditional 推舉
    • to nominate as a worthy candidate; to recommend
    • to elect; to choose
    • (weightlifting) to (clean and) press

Radicals of the characters

推
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 11 strokes · 扌 on the left, 隹 on the right
举
Radical 丶 (Kangxi radical 3) · 9 strokes

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

推举 in our stories

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  • 洪水终于退了，百姓能重新种地、盖房子。人们感激他，后来推举他做了首领。

    hóngshuǐ zhōngyú tuì le bǎixìng néng chóngxīn zhòng dì gài fángzi rénmen gǎnjī tā hòulái tuījǔ tā zuò le shǒulǐng

    At last the flood receded, and people could farm and build again. They were so grateful that they later chose him as their leader.

    From the story Yu the Great tames the flood HSK 6

Stories using 推举

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).