Memory phrase for the Kanji: 若

若

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Meaning young, inexperienced, if

Pronunciation

JAKU
wakai, moshi

Explanation

Top: plant 艹, bottom: right 右 (This hand ナ/

feeds the mouth 口.) For the mnemonic think to the character "hard 固": Things 囗 (like: herbs, vegetables, meat) with age 古 get hard 固 - Here however we have the opposite:

Mnemonic

The plant 艹 that is put by hand ナ into the mouth 口 is: young.

Radicals

若	young
艹	plant, grass	Shows two plants growing through the ground, simple variation of 艸.
右	right
	hand	Several characters are used for hand: ,ナ, 扌, 手,ヨ,又. The hand can be seen with the forearm on the right and the fingers on the left.

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Vocabulary

若干	じゃっかん	some, few, number of
若い	わかい	young
若々しい	わかわかしい	youthful, young
従容自若	しょうようじじゃく	having presence of mind, self-possessed

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