Memory phrase for the character: 滋

滋

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Meaning

to nourish, grow, increase, taste

Pronunciation

zī

Explanation

 Left: water 氵, right: now, here 兹 (2x mysterious 玄 (part of magnet: 磁, where an upper bracket 艹 holds threads 玄 with hanging stones 石 that are mysterious)

Mnemonic
 
Water is doubly mysterious: It nourishes and lets things grow.

Radicals

氵 waterSimplified from this water 水
兹 now, here, thisComprises twice the radical "mysterious 玄"
玄 mysteriousThis 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.




 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
 

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