推文

Chinese

push; refuse (responsibility); shove
language; culture; writing
language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle
 
simp. and trad.
(推文) 		推 文

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

推 (tuī) is from 推特 (Tuītè, “Twitter”).

Noun

推文

  1. (neologism, Internet) tweet (post on Twitter) (Classifier: 則／则 m)

Etymology 2

“to bump an old post”

Posts in forums are often sorted chronologically by the lastest reply time. Posting a reply to an old forum thread can move it to the top of the list.

“to promote writings”

推 (tuī) is from 推廣／推广 (tuīguǎng, “promote”).

Verb

推⫽文 (verb-object)

  1. (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Internet) to post a reply to an old forum thread to move it to the top of the list; to bump an old post back to the top of a forum page
  2. (Mainland China, Internet) to promote a writing

Etymology 3

On platforms like WeChat Official Accounts Platform, one can publish multiple articles and get URLs, but they are not pushed to subscribers' feeds. Service Sccounts can only send articles or text messages to all subscribers' feed four times per month, and Subscription Accounts can send one per day.

Verb

推⫽文 (verb-object)

  1. (Mainland China, of WeChat, etc.) to push an article to feeds

Noun

推文

  1. (Mainland China, of WeChat, etc.) an article pushed to feeds
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