Memory phrase for the character: 薯

薯

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Meaning potato, yam

Pronunciation

shǔ

Explanation

Top: plant 艹, bottom: government office 署 (The eyes 罒 above the persons 者 are a government office.)

Mnemonic
 
(Potatoes are harvested with a rake [here: 罒 net], which is used to furrow the ground.) The plant that is (harvested) with the rake of a person is the: potato.

Radicals

艹 grass, plant
网 netsometimes simplified to 罒.
者 person者
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 Vocabulary

甘薯 gān shǔ  sweet potato; Ipomoea batatas
番薯 fān shǔ  sweet potato; yam
马铃薯 mǎ líng shǔ  potato
马铃薯 mǎ líng shǔ  

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