Memory phrase for the Kanji: 基
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Meaning
| foundation, base, basic
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Pronunciation |
jī |
Explanation |
Top: image of a grain shovel/scoop 其 (tool for threshing, that is used for throwing up the grain rhythmically to divide the grain from the husk [thus used in period 期], below: earth 土 |
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The grain scoop has an earthen foundation.
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Radicals
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其
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grain shovel/scoop | With a grain scoop 其 (tool for threshing), grain was rhythmically [thus used in period 期] thrown up to shead the grain from the husk. (cf. to winnow 簸) |
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土
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earth, ground | |
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Vocabulary
| 基本上 |
jī běn shang |
basically; on the whole |
| 托洛茨基 |
Tuō luò cí jī |
Leon Davidovich Trotsky (1879-1940), early Bolshevik leader, exiled by Stalin in 1929 and murdered in 1940 |
| 熊成基 |
Xióng Chéng jī |
Xiong Chengji (1887-1910), anti-Qing revolutionary and martyr |
| 基建 |
jī jiàn |
capital construction (project); infrastructure |
| 甲基 |
jiǎ jī |
methyl group (chemistry) |
| 基极 |
jī jí |
base electrode (in transistor) |
| 氨基酸 |
ān jī suān |
amino acid |
| 基地 |
jī dì |
base (of operations); industrial or military base; al-Qaeda |
| 基层 |
jī céng |
basic level; grass-roots unit; basement layer |
| 基础 |
jī chǔ |
base; foundation; basis; underlying |
| 基金 |
jī jīn |
fund |
| 基金 |
jī jīn |
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