推 tuī
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- Made of
- 扌 hand 隹 short-tailed bird
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
推敲
tuīqiāo
to weigh and polish; to deliberate carefully
Characters in this word
敲 qiāo
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 攴 — to rap, to tap
- Made of
- 高 tall, lofty 攴 to rap, to tap
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 这份声明经过反复推敲，才避免了可能引发争议的措辞。 Zhè fèn shēngmíng jīngguò fǎnfù tuīqiāo, cái bìmiǎn le kěnéng yǐnfā zhēngyì de cuòcí. Only after repeated polishing did this statement avoid wording that might have caused controversy.
- 写完文章后，他又逐句推敲，改动了不少地方。 Xiě wán wénzhāng hòu, tā yòu zhú jù tuīqiāo, gǎidòng le bùshǎo dìfang. After finishing the article, he weighed it sentence by sentence again and changed quite a few places.
- 这本书的名字是他反复推敲才确定的。 Zhè běn shū de míngzi shì tā fǎnfù tuīqiāo cái quèdìng de. The title of this book was settled only after he weighed it over and over.
Related words
- 推 tuī to push
- 推动 tuīdòng to push forward; to promote
- 推广 tuīguǎng to promote; to spread
- 推进 tuījìn to advance; to push forward
- 推开 tuīkāi to push open; to push away
- 推迟 tuīchí to postpone
- 推销 tuīxiāo to promote and sell
- 推行 tuīxíng to carry out; to put into practice
- 推测 tuīcè to speculate, to guess
- 推崇 tuīchóng to esteem highly; to advocate
- 推辞 tuīcí to decline; to refuse politely
- 推断 tuīduàn to infer; to deduce