to advise / to urge / to try to persuade / to exhort / to console / to soothe

= + : Cupid (qu) is wearing his new boxing glove (又) as he sees an emergency power button (力) which would perfectly fit his glove in a blow in the anthill's bathroom (an4). There is an inner voice which advises (劝) him not to hit that button with his boxing glove, but yet he feels the urge (劝) to just do it.

勸 character breakdown

surname Li
power / force / strength / ability / strenuously

= + 丿 : Mnemonic symbol: a power button.

Li Qingzhao (li) just had a shower in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and wants to use the hair dryer, but there's no plug, just the bare end of the cable! She uses all her power to build an electricity plug, and for the two pins she uses a plough (㇆) and a banana (丿). Finally she hits a big power button (力) to turn the power on.
(archaic) stork / heron

= + + : The heron (雚) and the sparrow (隹) made a very copy nest for their offspring in the anthill's bathroom (an4). They build a base out of artificial lawn (艹) and decorated it with some mandarins (口) to feed their babies. Their nest is so high that only Gitta Giraffe (gu) can have a look inside because she is so tall.
variant of 萑[huan2]

Characters with 勸 as component

勸 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 勸

to persuade / persuasion / to advise
to advise / to urge / to exhort / exhortation / advice / CL:席[xi2]
to advise / to attempt to convince
to mediate in a quarrel / to intervene in a dispute and try to calm things down
conciliation / mediation / to mollify / to propitiate / to reconcile
to exhort / to admonish
to prevail upon / to coax
to advise and teach / to persuade and instruct
prevail / convince
to encourage and supervise (esp. state officials promoting agriculture)
to promote agriculture
envoy charge with promoting agriculture (in Han dynasty)
to advise / to encourage
to exhort (sb) to live a virtuous life (Buddhism) / to beg for alms
to mediate / to urge peace
to encourage virtue and punish evil (idiom); fig. poetic justice / you get what's coming to you
variant of 勸誡|劝诫[quan4 jie4]

Sentences with 勸

勸 currently does not appear in any sentence.