Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 飼


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Meaning

domesticate, breeding, rear animals, raise

Pronunciation

SHI
kau

Explanation

Left: food (cover on good food), right: govern, civil servant (... where sb. is sitting in a corner⌝ throwing a sheet of paper in the wastebasket )

Mnemonic

You need food and "management" for animal breeding.

Radicals

to eat(shows a cover and good (It might be helpful to see the lower two strokes as chopsticks.))
administer, govern(Pictograph: part of a buttock and anus of a civil servant to symbolize administration.)
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Vocabulary

飼う かう to keep/to raise/to feed
飼育 しいく breeding/raising/rearing
飼育者 しいくしゃ breeder


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