Memory phrase for the character: 遡

遡

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Meaning

go upstream, reverse movement

Pronunciation

SO
sakanoboru

Explanation

Left: reverse, opposite 逆 [A movement 辶 out 丷 to the 一 mountain 山 and downwards ノ movements are reversed], right: body part 月/肉 (朔 = Neumond = 1.day of lunar month)

Mnemonic

If you reverse your body, you go backwards: upstream.

Radicals

辶	movement	The radical shinnyuu* stands for movement and thus with the same meaning as the very similar radical ennyou 廴*
屰	opposite	chinese only: (see the difference vs. barracks/camp: 屯)
肉	body part, meat	The radical niku* is typically at the left side of a composition and drawn as: 月, which looks equal to: "moon, month 月" but still has the meaning 'body part'.*

Vocabulary

遡る

さかのぼる

to go back, to go upstream, to make retroactive

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