Memory phrase for the character: 飼


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Meaning

domesticate, breeding, rear animals, raise

Pronunciation

SHI
kau

Explanation

Left: food 食 (cover on good 良 food), right: govern, civil servant 司 (... where sb. is sitting in a corner ⌝ throwing a sheet 一 of paper in the wastebasket 口)

Mnemonic


 
You need food and "management" for animal breeding.

Radicals

to eatshows a cover and good 良 (It might be helpful to see the lower two strokes as chopsticks.)
administer, governPictograph: part of a buttock and anus of a civil servant to symbolize administration.




 Vocabulary

飼う かう  to keep, to raise, to feed
飼育 しいく  breeding, raising, rearing
飼育者 しいくしゃ  breeder


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