Memory phrase for the character: 隙

隙

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Meaning

fissure, gap, free space, free time

Pronunciation

GEKI
suki

Explanation

 Left: hill 阝, right: vari. of sunset 莫 (small 小, day/sun 日, small 小 [= the sun becomes smaller and smaller = sunset]

Mnemonic
 
Let's go to the hill at sunset, we have space and time.

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.)
莫 to go down, to setThe plants 艹 are made by the sun 日 to be large 大 (= as long shadows) at sunset. - Please be aware that this very similar radical stands for the sunrise.




 Vocabulary

隙 すき  (1) chance or opportunity, (2) interval, gap
隙間 すきま  crevice, crack, gap, opening

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