Memory phrase for the character: 貫


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Meaning

pierce, penetrate

Pronunciation

KAN
tsuranuku

Explanation

Top: mother 母 (= a breastfeeding woman 女 with swollen breasts :), below: shell/money 貝

Mnemonic


 
Mother's money is pierced.

Radicals

motherShows a woman 女 with a longer right stroke ノ and with two dots : which are swollen breasts of a nursing (breast-feeding) mother.
moneyShows a cowries-shell 目 with two feelers/antennas 八, which were used as money.




 Vocabulary

貫く つらぬく  to go through
貫禄 かんろく  presence, dignity


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