Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 若

若

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Meaning

 young, inexperienced, if

Pronunciation

 JAKU
wakai, moshi

Explanation

 Top: plant 艹, bottom: right 右 (This hand ナ/ feeds the mouth 口.) For the mnemnic think to the character "hard 固": Things 囗 (like: herbs, vegetables, meat) with age 古 get hard 固 - Here however we have the opposite:

Mnemonic

The plant 艹 that is put by hand ナ into the mouth 口 is: young.

Radicals

若 young
艹 plant, grass(Shows two plants growing through the ground, simple variation of 艸.)
右 right
hand(Several characters are used for hand: ,ナ, 扌, 手,ヨ,又)
Tip: Go to the radicals that are contained in this character and learn all the characters with this radical systematically!

Vocabulary

若干 じゃっかん some/few/number of
若い わかい young
若々しい わかわかしい youthful/young

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