Memory phrase for the character: 毒

毒

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Meaning

poison, harm

Pronunciation

DOKU

Explanation

 Top: growing plant , bottom: mother 母 (= a breastfeeding woman 女 with swollen breasts : )

Mnemonic
 
Vegetarian (nutrition) for mothers can be poisoning?

Radicals

growing plant
母 motherShows a woman 女 with a longer right stroke ノ and with two dots : which are swollen breasts of a nursing (breast-feeding) mother.




 Vocabulary

毒 どく  poison, toxicant
毒性 どくせい  toxicity, virulence
中毒 ちゅうどく  poisoning
気の毒 きのどく  pitiful, a pity
消毒 しょうどく  disinfection, sterilization
毒殺 どくさつ  to kill by poison

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