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The Radical: 臼
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mortar 臼
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Like two hands E, 彐 that are pushing from both sides. |
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興
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JLPT 1Joyo 5 |
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interest, entertain, raise, retrieve
okosu, KYŌ, KŌ Left and right: pressing hands  , ヨ like a mortar 臼, center: same 同 [= All containers 冂 have only one 一 opening 口 and that is the same.], below: table  Here: seen as two turned hands 廾 grasping upwards 屮 from below. Thus four hands are shown.
All four hands have the same interest.
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臼
同
廾
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糖
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JLPT 1Joyo 6 |
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sugar
TŌ Left: rice 米, right: Tang dynasty 唐 (building 广, hand ナ/ヨ holding a pestle 丨, mortar 口/臼)
The rice is processed in the building by hand with pestle and mortar into: Sugar.
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米
广
臼
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潟
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JLPT 1Joyo 7 |
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lagoon, beach, inlet
kata, SEKI Left: water 氵, right: mortar 臼, which looks like the inlet to a bay, wrap 勹 and four legs 灬 (cf. bird 鳥, horse 馬
Behind the water is the bay, wherein protected (= wrapped) four legs 灬 (= animals) are: in the lagoon.
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氵
臼
勹
灬
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粛
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JLPT 1Joyo 7 |
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solemn, quietly, self-restraint, correct, sternly
SHUKU Top: hand ナ/ヨ with pestle 丨, bottem: rice 米 in the mortar 丨丨
When the hand with the pestle works on the rice in the mortar it is a solemn moment.
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聿
米
臼
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唐
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JLPT 1Joyo 7 |
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Tang-China
kara, TŌ Outside: building 广, below: hand ナ/ヨ, pestle 丨, mortar 口
Buildings in which a hand uses a mortar in the Tang Dynasty. (It was 618-907 AD and a heyday. - Maybe that's why people peacefully prepared food in the mortar?)
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臼
口
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毀
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JLPT -Joyo 7 |
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destroy, break, damage, scratched
KI Left: mortar 臼 (cf. pressing hands/press [cf: 緑, 興), earth 土, right: weapon 几 (battle axe) in hand 又.
Within a mortar made of earth or with a battle axe in your hand you can: destroy.
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臼
土
殳
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臼
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JLPT -Joyo 7 |
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mortar
usu, KYŪ An image that expresses "to press", with hands from left 'E' and right 'ヨ' - (cf. 緑, 興 etc.)
It works like a double press: the mortar.
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臼
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