勸

• Exhortation: To urge, advise, encourage, or exhort. The range extends from a gentle suggestion to a stern moral appeal or command.
• Incentive/Reward: To reward, grant a bounty, or incentivize. This sense is common in military, legal, or administrative contexts.

• Urge/Advise: Typically follows the pattern //勸 [person] [action/goal]//.
• Reward: Typically follows the pattern //勸 [person] [reward]// or functions as a verb of granting.

• vs. 諫 (jiàn): While both involve advice, 諫 is specifically "remonstrating"—correcting a superior's error. 勸 is more general and does not necessarily imply the subject is in error.
• vs. 勉 (miǎn): 勉 emphasizes striving, perseverance, or internal bracing; 勸 generally refers to external pressure or incentive applied to another.

• Variant: U+529D serves as a common semantic and simplified variant.

• In early manuscripts, the left component (卷) may appear collapsed or simplified; this is a scribal variation that does not alter the meaning.

The glyph generally operates on two primary tracks: interpersonal/moral (exhortation) or administrative/material (incentive). If the object of the verb is a title, sum of money, or grain, the meaning is likely "to reward" rather than "to urge."