Memory phrase for the Kanji: 澄

澄

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Meaning clear, clarify, settle (liquids)

Pronunciation

CHŌ
sumu/masu

Explanation

Left: water 氵, right: to climb 登 (The volcano 癶 spits bean 豆, let's climb up)

Mnemonic

(In dirty water, the dirt settles down & a clean fraction rises up:) When water is climbing, it becomes clear. (Beforehand, in the water 氵 the view 罒 of insects 虫 was only indistinct, as if wrapped up 勹, due to the impurity 濁)

Radicals

氵	water	The radical sanzui* 氵 is a short form of water 水*
癶	vulcano
豆	bean	The radical mame* is interpreted as showing a bean 一 that is in a pot 口 (with a stand).*

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Vocabulary

澄ます	すます	to clear, to make clear, to be unruffled, to look unconcerned
澄む	すむ	to clear (e.g. weather), to become transparent

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