Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 執

執

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Meaning

 tenacious, grasp, transact, obsession, persistence

Pronunciation

 SHITSU, SHŪ
toru

Explanation

 Left: happiness 幸 (Between two 丷 earths 土/干 is the happiness), right: round 丸 (Sth. nine-九-sided needs an extra stroke 丶 to become round.)

Mnemonic

(It slips out of our hands too easily:) As happiness is round, you have to grasp it tenaciously.

Radicals

幸 luck
丸 round
土 earth(ground, soil)
羊 sheep(Picture of the face of a sheep with two horns.)
九 nine
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Vocabulary

執着 しゅうちゃく attachment, adhesion, tenacity
執着 しゅうじゃく attachment, adhesion, tenacity
執筆 しっぴつ writing

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