Memory phrase for the Kanji: 畜


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Meaning livestock, domestic fowl and animals

Pronunciation

CHIKU

Explanation

Top: mysterious, occult 玄 (part of magnet: 磁, where a upper bracket 艹 holds 玄/糸 hanging stones 石 that behave mysteriously), below: field 田

Mnemonic


 
(The fertile fields are used to grow grain. But:) Mysterious (= barren) field can at least be used for breeding livestock.

Radicals

mysteriousThe radical gen is easy to remember if you think of “magnet 磁” (cf. magnet 磁石 = じしゃく), where stones 石 are hanging at strings 糸 (simplified to 幺) [and fixed with a bracket 艹] behave mysteriously.
rice field
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 Vocabulary

家畜 かちく  domestic animals, livestock, cattle
牧畜 ぼくちく  stock-farming
畜生 ちくしょう  beast, brute, damn
畜産 ちくさん  animal husbandry

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