Memory phrase for the character: 紫

紫

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Meaning

purple, violet

Pronunciation

SHI
murasaki

Explanation

 Top: this 此 (I stop 止 at the sitting person 匕, namely this), below: thread 糸 (Think of “the end 絶”, namely when knitting you like to have a colored 色 thread 糸 for the last row that ends 絶 it.)

Mnemonic
 
It is stopped 止 by the seated person 匕 (i.e. the knitting of the sweater) with a thread 糸 in purple.

Radicals

止 to stopAt top the picture of a left foot and at bottom a limiting line. "The foot stands at the line 一 and stops."
匕 sitting personThe Radical sajinohi means "spoon". But due to its appearance is typically used as a "sitting person". In few cases however, it is understood as claws (i.e. of a bear).
糸 thread




 Vocabulary

紫 むらさき  purple colour, violet

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