Memory phrase for the character: 節


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Meaning

occasion, season, node, joint, section

Pronunciation

SETSU, SECHI
fushi

Explanation

Top: bamboo 竹, below: immediate 即 (Not good 艮, he shall bend 卩 - immediately!)

Mnemonic


 
(Bamboo is very fast-growing.) Bamboo grows immediatly, at any occation of the seasons, because of its joints.

Radicals

bamboo
not goodThis radical 艮 is similar to good: 良. But one stroke is missing and thus it becomes: "not good"
bent personShows a person 人 bowing down deeply. (Further radicals with "person" are: sitting 匕, sitting cross-legged 夂, lying , kneeling ⺈, skilled 才, bending マ,卩, slumped 㔾 or husband 夫)
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 Vocabulary

ふし  tune, tone, knot, knob, point
関節 かんせつ  joint (knee, elbow)
季節 きせつ  season
節約 せつやく  economising, saving
使節 しせつ  envoy, embassy, mission, delegate
せつ  tune, tone, knot, knob
調節 ちょうせつ  regulation, adjustment, control
節穴 ふしあな  knothole
季節物 きせつもの  seasonal offers


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