倡导

chàng dǎo · HSK 5

to advocate

📣 倡 = champion/initiate + 导 = guide/lead → champion-and-guide an idea

倡 (chàng) carries the sense of leading/initiating (same 昌 phonetic as in 'flourish'), and 导 (dǎo) means to guide or direct. Together: to lead-and-guide a cause — i.e. advocate or propose it.

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