Memory phrase for the character: 透

透

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Meaning

transparent, permeate, clear, translucent

Pronunciation

TŌ
suku/kasu/keru

Explanation

 Left: movement 辶, right: excellent 秀 (= A rice plant 禾 plump like a 'pregnancy belly' 乃 is excellent.)

Mnemonic
 
(The praise because he cleaned the windows for the first time in 10 years:) Excellent, this movement, and it became transparent again.

Radicals

辶 movementThe radical shinnyuu stands for movement and thus with the same meaning as the very similar radical ennyou 廴
秀 excellentA rice plant 禾 as plump as a pregnant belly 乃 is excellent. (乃 is considered a pregnancy belly because it is used in 'pregant' 孕む [はら~む] where a child comes out of it).
禾 rice plantIt shows the ear/spike of a rice plant. The rice-grain has this radical: 米 and the ripe rice plant is this combination: 釆.
乃 pregnancy bellyThe meaning of this radical is based on 孕む (はら~む), which means: "to become pregnant". It is read such that the child 子 comes out of the womb 乃.




 Vocabulary

透き通る すきとおる  to be(come) transparent
透明 とうめい  transparency, cleanness

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