Memory phrase for the Kanji: 茨

茨

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Meaning

to thatch (a roof), Caltrop or puncture vine

Pronunciation

 cí

Explanation

 Top: plant 艹, below: next/following 次 (ice 冫is lacking 欠 [yawning person], what comes next?)

Mnemonic
 
When a plant is the "next" to each other [= they lie close adjacent], this is a thatched roof.

Radicals

艹 grass, plantGrass or a rapid growing plant in general. It shows two plants growing through the ground, and is a simple variation of 艸.
次 next in sequence
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 Vocabulary

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
博茨瓦纳 Bó cí wǎ nà  Botswana
顿涅茨克 Dùn niè cí kè  Donetsk
顿涅茨克 Dùn niè cí kè  

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