Memory phrase for the character: 兹

兹

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Meaning

now, here, this, time

Pronunciation

 zī

Explanation

 (2x mysterious 玄 (part of magnet: 磁, where an upper bracket 艹 holds threads 玄 with hanging stones 石 that are mysterious)

Mnemonic
 
Like a magnet without a stone, such mysterious is: this now and here.

Radicals

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.
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 Vocabulary

韦尔弗雷兹 Wéi ěr fú léi zī  (George) Wehrfritz (Beijing bureau chief of Newsweek)
赫兹 Hè zī  Hertz (name); Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894), German physicist and meteorologist, pioneer of electromagnetic radiation; Herz (Hz) or cycles per second, unit of frequency
赫兹 Hè zī  
庞兹 Páng zī  Ponzi (name)
庞兹 Páng zī  

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