Memory phrase for the character: 嗣

嗣

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Meaning

inherit, succeed to

Pronunciation

SHI
tsugu

Explanation

 Left: mouth 口, book/volume 冊 (bundle of bamboo writing tablets), right: administration/civil servant 司 (... where sb. is sitting in a corner ⌝ throwing a sheet 一 of paper in the wastebasket 口)

Mnemonic
 
He spoke, wrote it on the tablets and gave (his last will) to the civil servant for the inheritance.

Radicals

口 mouthA small square 口 stands for the mouth, and a big square 囗 is an enclosure.
冊 bamboo tablets
司 administer, governPictograph: part of a buttock and anus of a civil servant to symbolize administration.




 Vocabulary

嗣子 しし  inheritance, heir

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