Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 菜

菜

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Meaning

 vegetable, greens

Pronunciation

 SAI
na

Explanation

 Top: plant 艹, below: to pluck/harvest 采 (A hand 爫 reaches down into a tree 木)

Mnemonic

Plants that are plucked are vegetables.

Radicals

艹 plant, grass(Shows two plants growing through the ground, simple variation of 艸.)
采 pluck, pick up
爫 grap downwards(The radical notsu shows a hand which is reaching downwards.)
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Vocabulary

菜 な greens, vegetables, rape (Brassica napus)
野菜 やさい vegetable
菜種油 なたねあぶら rapeseed oil
菜食主義 さいしょくしゅぎ vegetarianism

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