Memory phrase for the character: 伺

伺

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Meaning

pay respects, inquire, question, visit

Pronunciation

SHI
ukagau

Explanation

 Left: person 亻, right: civil servant, administration 司 (... where sb. is sitting in a corner ⌝ throwing a sheet 一 of paper in the wastebasket 口.)

Mnemonic
 
A person visiting a civil servant shall pay respects.

Radicals

亻 personThis radical is understood as an identical variant of "person" 人, and shows a person who stands with the legs apart.
司 administer, governPictograph: part of a buttock and anus of a civil servant to symbolize administration.




 Vocabulary

伺う うかがう  (hon) to visit, to ask, to inquire, to hear, to implore (a god for an oracle)

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