Memory phrase for the Kanji: 滋

滋

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Meaning to nourish, grow, increase, to suscite, taste

Pronunciation

zī

Explanation

Left: water 氵, right: now, here 兹 (2x mysterious 玄 (part of magnet: 磁, where a upper bracket 艹 holds threads 玄 with hanging stones 石 that are mysterious)

Mnemonic

Water is doubly mysterious: It nourishes and lets things grow.

Radicals

氵	Water
兹	now, here, this	Comprises twice the radical "mysterious 玄"
玄	mysterious	This 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

滋味	zī wèi	taste; flavor; feeling
滋长	zī zhǎng	to grow (usually of abstract things); to yield; to develop
滋生	zī shēng	to breed; to flourish; to cause; to provoke; to create
滋生	zī shēng

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