Memory phrase for the character: 詞

詞

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Meaning

word, phrases, part of speech

Pronunciation

 SHI
kotoba

Explanation

 Left: word 言 (sound waves out of a mouth 口), right: administration 司 (... where sb. is sitting in a corner⌝ throwing a sheet 一 of paper in the wastebasket 口)

Mnemonic
 
Words of the administration are (nothing but) words.

Radicals

言 word, speechSound waves above the opened mouth 口 symbolize the spoken word.
司 administer, governPictograph: part of a buttock and anus of a civil servant to symbolize administration.
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 Vocabulary

他動詞 たどうし  transitive verb (direct obj)
代名詞 だいめいし  pronoun
助動詞 じょどうし  auxiliary verb
形容詞 けいようし  "true" adjective
副詞 ふくし  adverb
助詞 じょし  (gram) particle, postposition
動詞 どうし  verb
台詞 せりふ  speech, words, one's lines, remarks
名詞 めいし  noun

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