勧告
かんこく · kankoku · JLPT N1 · noun
advice
💬 勧 (encourage) + 告 (tell) = advice: you encourage by telling them what to do
勧 means encourage or recommend, and 告 means tell or announce. Together they form 勧告, a formal piece of advice or counsel given to someone.
告 — ox 牛 (top) + mouth 口
Originally a pictograph showing an ox with something on its head, possibly a yoke or sacrificial marker, combined with 口 (mouth) to suggest announcing or reporting. The character came to mean 'to tell' or 'to announce,' as in making a formal declaration. Today it commonly appears in words like 告诉 (to tell) and 报告 (report).