Memory phrase for the character: 陶

陶

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Meaning

pottery, porcelain, ceramic

Pronunciation

TŌ

Explanation

 Left: hill 阝, right: wrapping 勹 and a can 缶 (lid and can opener 十 of that can 凵)

Mnemonic
 
Take it from the hill (as clay), and make a "wrapping" such as a can: It is pottery.

Radicals

阝 hillThe radical kozato shows a hill. 阝 and is always on the left side of a kanji. (Please note that rather similar radical oozato ⻏ is always on the right sight of the kanji and means village.)
勹 wrapThe function of this radical 勹 for “to wrap” is easily recognizable with "package 包" or "chest/breast 胸".
缶 container, canThe character “noon” 午 is seen as a mortar 午 that stands upright under the vertical sun in the container 凵 at noon. So this combination means: container 缶.




 Vocabulary

陶器 とうき  pottery, ceramics

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