Illustration: At the entrance to a Japanese neighborhood garden, an organizer offers free seedling pots and spare gloves to residents arriving from nearby apartments. The organizer gestures invitingly toward an available planting bed, where experienced gardeners make room for newcomers.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

奨しょう励れい

shourei

to encourage, to promote

Example sentences

  1. 人々ひとびとはフットボールをするように奨励しょうれいさえされたのです。

    People were even encouraged to play football.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 私わたしたちは想像力そうぞうりょくを使つかうように奨励しょうれいされています。

    We are encouraged to use our imagination.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 私わたしたちの学校がっこうではスポーツを奨励しょうれいしている。

    Our school encourages sports.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 奨励

  • 奨exhort; urgeOnショウ・ソウKunすすめる
  • 励encourage; be diligentOnレイKunはげむ・はげます

A word like this on every new tab

The Bebop Chrome extension shows one illustrated Japanese word each time you open a new tab in Chrome, with its reading, meaning, kanji and three example sentences. Choose any mix of levels from N5 to beyond N1. It’s free, with no account.

The Bebop new tab showing 音楽, music, over an illustration of a family playing music at home, with three example sentences
Add to Chrome Free on the Chrome Web Store
For Chrome on a computer. See it on the Chrome Web Store