推荐
tuījiàn · HSK 7
recommend
👍 推荐 = 推 push + 荐 recommend; you push a name forward to recommend it
推 means to push; 荐 means to recommend or put forward. Together they form the act of pushing someone or something forward for approval. Sound cue: tuījiàn starts like the English tweak-jen, a quick verbal hook for the two syllables.
推 — hand radical 扌 + 隹 (short-tailed bird)
A semantic-phonetic compound: the hand radical 扌 gives the meaning 'to push' or act with the hand, while 隹 supplies the sound (originally close to 'tui'). The core sense has stayed remarkably stable, expanding from physical pushing to figurative uses like 'recommend' or 'infer'.