推

音読おんよみ: スイ

訓読くんよみ: おす

画数かくすう: 11

部首ぶしゅ: 扌（てへん）

Meaning

Push / Recommend / Infer

  • Basic forms
  • 推す — push; recommend; support / base form
  • 推します — push; recommend / masu form
  • 推した — pushed; recommended / ta form
  • 推して — pushing … / te form
  • 推さない — do not push; do not recommend / negative
  • 推せば — if (one) pushes; if (one) recommends / conditional
  • 推せ — push!; recommend! / imperative
  • Common expressions
  • 候補者を推す — support a candidate
  • 商品を推す — recommend a product
  • 推しのアイドル — favorite idol
  • More
  • 推される — be recommended; be supported / passive
  • 推している — is supporting; is recommending / state

推す（おす） is a godan transitive verb. It originally means to push, but is commonly used to mean recommending or strongly supporting someone or something, especially in modern usage.

  • 推理すいり — deduction / reasoning
  • 推測すいそく — guess / inference
  • 推進すいしん — promotion / propulsion
  • 推定すいてい — presumption / estimation
  • 推薦すいせん — recommendation

推 combines 扌 (hand, action) with 隹 (phonetic). It began with the sense of physically pushing and broadened to urging ideas forward — recommending, inferring, estimating.

彼かれは 事件じけんの 真相しんそうを 推理すいりした。
He deduced the truth of the case.

この数字すうじから 人口じんこうを 推定すいていできます。
The population can be estimated from these numbers.

測
Creates
推測すいそく — guess / inference
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