Memory phrase for the character: 節

節

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Meaning

occasion, season, node, joint, section

Pronunciation

SETSU, SECHI
fushi

Explanation

Top: bamboo 竹, below: immediate 即 (Not good 艮, he shall bend 卩 - immediately!)

Mnemonic


 
(Bamboo is very fast-growing.) Bamboo grows immediatly, at any occation of the seasons, because of its joints.

Radicals

竹 bamboo
艮 not goodThis radical 艮 is similar to good: 良. But one stroke is missing and thus it becomes: "not good"
卩 bent personShows a person 人 bowing down deeply. (Further radicals with "person" are: sitting 匕, sitting cross-legged 夂, lying , kneeling ⺈, skilled 才, bending マ,卩, slumped 㔾 or husband 夫)




 Vocabulary

節 ふし  tune, tone, knot, knob, point
関節 かんせつ  joint (knee, elbow)
季節 きせつ  season
節約 せつやく  economising, saving
使節 しせつ  envoy, embassy, mission, delegate
節 せつ  tune, tone, knot, knob
調節 ちょうせつ  regulation, adjustment, control
節穴 ふしあな  knothole
季節物 きせつもの  seasonal offers


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