Memory phrase for the character: 施

施

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Meaning

charity, donate, bestow, alms

Pronunciation

 SHI, SE
hodokosu

Explanation

 Left: direction 方, right: lying person and a placeholder for a change 也 (image of a snake that molts [=shedding the skin])

Mnemonic
 
(Is he a beggar who needs support?) Only in one direction the lying person can hope for a change: by charity and alms.

Radicals

方 direction
lying personIs understood as a flat version of: 人 - Other radicals with 'person' are: sitting 匕, sitting cross-legged 夂, kneeling ⺈, skilled 才, bending マ,卩, slumped 㔾 or husband 夫
也 "in different shape"Shows a coiled creature, like a snake shedding its skin. It is used with the meaning: "in different shape"
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 Vocabulary

実施 じっし  enforcement, enact, put into practice, carry out, operation
施す ほどこす  to donate, to give, to conduct, to apply, to perform
施行 しこう  execution, enforcing, carrying out
施設 しせつ  institution, establishment, facility, (army) engineer

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