Memory phrase for the character: 康

康

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Meaning

healthy, peaceful, abundant

Pronunciation

 kāng

Explanation

 Left/top: building 广, below: a hand with a spoon 丨 stirs a liquid 水

Mnemonic
 
In a building a hand stirs a soup that is healthy.

Radicals

广 buildingAt the explanation this radical is understood as building. The Hanzi 广 (guǎng) itself means: extensive, wide, numerous or to spread
隶 stirring soupThe official meaning is "slave" but better usable as a hand stirring water (=soup)
尹 hand with stickShows a hand with a stick ノ and is often used for “ruling”. For “beating 攴”, this stick 卜 in this hand 又 is used and simplified to 攵.
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 Vocabulary

健康 jiàn kāng  health; healthy
康熙 Kāng xī  Kangxi or K'ang Hsi, second Qing Emperor (1661-1722)
康有为 Kāng Yǒu wéi  Kang Youwei (1858-1927), Confucian intellectual, educator and would-be reformer, main leader of the failed reform movement of 1898
康有为 Kāng Yǒu wéi  

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