推
tuīTraditional: 推
#1939 of 5,000 Core 5000
Translation
to push, to shove, to postpone
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound with the hand radical 扌 (shǒu, hand) for the action and 隹 (zhuī) marking the sound, depicting pushing by hand.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 扌 (shǒu, hand) + 隹 (zhuī, phonetic)
Stroke order
推
Examples
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Please push the door hard.
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He pushed the car to the roadside.
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The meeting has been postponed to next week.
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Do not push me, I will walk by myself.
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Let us push the box onto the truck together.
推 (tuī) means to push or shove, and figuratively to postpone or delay an event. It is the everyday opposite of 拉 (lā, to pull).
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