- 推理 — deduction / reasoning
- 推測 — guess / inference
- 推進 — promotion / propulsion
- 推定 — presumption / estimation
- 推薦 — recommendation
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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.
彼は 事件の 真相を 推理した。
He deduced the truth of the case.
この数字から 人口を 推定できます。
The population can be estimated from these numbers.