Memory phrase for the character: 蓄

蓄

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Meaning

to store up, to grow (eg. a beard)

Pronunciation

xù

Explanation

 Top: plant 艹, bottom: cattle breeding 畜 (The mysterious 玄 field 田 is used for cattle breeding [because it is not sufficiently fertile for grain crops]) [mysterious = 玄 = thread 糸 with mysterious stone = magnet 磁]

Mnemonic
 
Plants for cattle breeding have to be grown & stored.

Radicals

艹 grass, plantGrass or a rapid growing plant in general. It shows two plants growing through the ground, and is a simple variation of 艸.
畜 cattle breeding
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.
田 field




 Vocabulary

蓄积 xù jī  to store up; to save up
蓄电池 xù diàn chí  accumulator; battery
蓄水 xù shuǐ  water storage
蓄水 xù shuǐ  

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