Memory phrase for the character: 錮

錮

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to imprison so., tie up, to bond sb.

Left: gold/metal 金, right: hard/firm/strong 固 (Some things 囗 [= meat, some vegetable] with age 古 [= tomb stone] become hard 固)

Metal is hard/strong and thus used for a prison.

金	gold, metal	This radical is always on the left side of a character.
固	hard, firm	Outside a frame 囗, which stands as a placeholder for things that become hard with age 古, such as the meat of old animals or old vegetables/roots. In other words: "things" that are old are also hard.
囗	enclosure	The radical kunigamae* surrounds/encloses further components and thus differs from the smaller square that stands for mouth 口.*
古	old	Picture of a gravestone

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