Memory phrase for the character: 基

基

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Meaning foundation, base, basic

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

Mnemonic
 
The grain scoop has an earthen foundation.

Radicals

其 grain shovel/scoopWith a grain scoop 其 (tool for threshing), grain was rhythmically [thus used in period 期] thrown up to shed the grain from the husk. (cf. to winnow 簸)
土 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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