Memory phrase for the Kanji: 滋
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滋 |
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Hanzi-Trainer
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Meaning
| to nourish, grow, increase, to suscite, taste
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Pronunciation |
zī |
Explanation |
Left: water 氵, right: now, here 兹 (2x mysterious 玄 (part of magnet: 磁, where a upper bracket 艹 holds threads 玄 with hanging stones 石 that are mysterious) |
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Water is doubly mysterious: It nourishes and lets things grow.
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Radicals
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氵
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Water | |
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兹
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now, here, this | Comprises twice the radical "mysterious 玄" |
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玄
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mysterious | This radical is easy to remember if you think of “magnet 磁” (cf. magnet, porcelain 磁 [cí]), where stones 石 are hanging at strings 糸 (simplified to 幺 and fixed with a bracket 艹) behave mysteriously. |
Tip: Go to the radicals that are contained in this character and learn all the characters with this radical systematically!
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Vocabulary
| 滋味 |
zī wèi |
taste; flavor; feeling |
| 滋长 |
zī zhǎng |
to grow (usually of abstract things); to yield; to develop |
| 滋生 |
zī shēng |
to breed; to flourish; to cause; to provoke; to create |
| 滋生 |
zī shēng |
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