Memory phrase for the Kanji: 飼

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

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