Memory phrase for the character: 興

興

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interest, entertain, raise, retrieve

KYŌ, KŌ
okosu

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.

臼	mortar	Like two hands E, 彐 that are pushing from both sides.
	to press, push	This character appears like the left half of mortar 臼, which shows hands E,ヨ pressing from both sides.
	hand	Several characters are used for hand: ,ナ, 扌, 手,ヨ,又. The hand can be seen with the forearm on the right and the fingers on the left.
同	the same	All containers 冂 only have one 一 opening 口, and that is the same.
廾	two hands	Even though the radical actually was developed from feet, it is here understood as two hands 屮 (with the fingers 山 upwards, simplified and combined).

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興す	おこす	to revive, to retrieve (fortunes), to raise up
興味	きょうみ	interest (in something)
復興	ふっこう	revival, renaissance, reconstruction
余興	よきょう	side show, entertainment
振興	しんこう	promotion, encouragement
新興	しんこう	rising, developing, emergent
興じる	きょうじる	to amuse oneself, to make merry
興奮	こうふん	excitement, stimulation, agitation, arousal
興業	こうぎょう	industrial enterprise

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