Memory phrase for the character: 鎖


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Meaning

chain, shut, link

Pronunciation

SA
kusari

Explanation

Left: metal, gold 金 (Covered in the ground 土 are 2 gold nuggets 丷), right: small 小 money 貝 (=small change)

Mnemonic


 
(If you punch a hole into the coins:) The metal of small change can be used as a chain.

Radicals

gold, metalThis radical is always on the left side of a character.
smallA person | with two arms 八 close to the body is small (compare with big 大, which is a person with widely spread arms and legs).
moneyShows a cowries-shell 目 with two feelers/antennas 八, which were used as money.




 Vocabulary

連鎖反応 れんさはんのう  chain reaction
封鎖 ふうさ  blockade, freezing (funds)
くさり  chain
閉鎖 へいさ  closing, closure, shutdown, lockout, unsociable


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