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growing plant   

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Used in these characters:
JLPT 5Joyo 1
life, birth, grow, raw, pure
ikiru, umu/maru, haeru, nama, ki, SEI, SHŌ
Emphasis ノ (here: a twig) at a growing plant /丰
The twig at the growing plant stands for life.  
JLPT 4Joyo 1
blue, young
aoi, SEI, SHŌ
Top: growing plant (Variation of live 生), below: moon 月 (not mismatch with 責)
Growing plants appear in the light of the moon as blue and young.  
JLPT 5Joyo 1
year
toshi, NEN
Comprises the trunk | of a tree with three 三 branches, which is understood as a growing plant . Additionally with two accents ノ,| which are understood as fruits.
When the growing plants bear fruit, it has passed: another year.  
JLPT 3Joyo 2
sunny, bright, clear up
hareru, SEI
Left: day/sun 日, right: young, blue 青 (Growing plants appear in the moonshine 月 as blue and young.)
Sunny and blue (sky) - It's sunny and the weather's cleared up.  
JLPT 3Joyo 2
wheat, barley
mugi, BAKU
Top: growing plant (variation of live 生), bottom: turned feet (a person who is stitting cross-legged) 夂
Let the plants grow, cross your legs and enjoy the wheat.  
JLPT 3Joyo 3
express, show, surface, table
arawasu, omote, HYŌ
Top: growing plant , bottom: clothes 衣
Growing plants and clothes express at the surface.  
JLPT 3Joyo 4
harm, injury, damage
GAI
From top: roof 宀, growing plant in a pot 口 (cf. vari of poison 毒 which also harms)
The roof has - by the growing potted plant - been damaged.  
JLPT 3Joyo 4
clean, pure, platonic
kiyoi, SEI, SHŌ
Left: water 氵, right: blue, young 青 (Growing plants appear in the moonshine 月 as blue and young.)
Water that is blue is also clean and pure.  
JLPT 3Joyo 4
pile, stack, product
tsumu, SEKI
Left: rice plant 禾, right: responsibility 責 (... for growing plants and money 貝)
Rice plants and growing plants and money: These are things to pile.  
JLPT 3Joyo 4
poison, harm
DOKU
Top: growing plant , bottom: mother 母 (= a breastfeeding woman 女 with swollen breasts : )
Vegetarian (nutrition) for mothers can be poisoning?  
JLPT 2Joyo 5
passion, sympathy, feeling, emotion, fact
nasake, JŌ, SEI
Left: feeling 忄, right: young, blue 青 (Growing plants appear in the moonshine 月 as blue and young.)- Churchill: “If a man is not a socialist with 20 years, he has no heart. If he is still a socialist with 40, he has no brain.”
The feeling of the youth is passion.  
JLPT 2Joyo 5
spirit, refine, soul, energy
SEI, SHŌ
Left: rice 米, right: blue 青 (Growing plants appear in the moonshine 月 as blue and young.)
Rice that has been grown under the moon is full of spirit.  
JLPT 2Joyo 5
responsibility, liability, blame
semeru, SEKI
Top: growing plant , below: shell/money 貝
Growing plants and money mean responsibility ..and liability.  
JLPT 2Joyo 5
to spin (a textile) achievement, technique
SEKI
Left: thread 糸, right: liability, responsibility 責 (... for growing plants and money 貝)
Threads have the "responsibility" to be used for spinning.  
JLPT 1Joyo 5
(chemical) element, elementary, base, plain
moto, SO, SU
Top: growing plant , bottom: thread 糸 (= fiber)
Growing plants consist of fibers, which are their (chemical) elements.  
JLPT 1Joyo 5
bag, sack
tawara, HYŌ
Left: person 亻/人, right: surface, list 表 (Growing plants and clothes 衣 show at the surface.)
This person appears at his surface to be a sack.  
JLPT 2Joyo 6
ratio, rate, divide
wari, waru, KATSU
Left: damage 害 (The roof 宀 has by the growing plant in a pot 口 been: damaged.), right: knife 刂
The damage by the knife was divided in the ratio (of 10%-steps).  
JLPT 2Joyo 6
work, duty, serve
tsutomeru, KIN
Left: blooming plant 堇 (plant 艹 with 2 blossoms ロロ at growing plant ), right: strength/force 力
Blooming plants give me strength for my work.  
JLPT 1Joyo 6
Constitution, law
KEN
From top: roof 宀, growing plant , eye 罒, heart 心
Under this 'roof' you can grow and it has an eye on the hearts: The constitution.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
wedge, control, manage
kusabi, KATSU
Left: vehicle 車, right. damage 害 (The roof 宀 has by the growing plant in a pot 口 been: damaged.)
(A wedge behind a wheel as protection against rolling away:) Such that the vehicle is not damaged: With a wedge it is under control.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
debt, loan, credit
SAI
Left: person 人, right: liability, blame 責 (... for growing plants and money 貝)
A person bears the liability for his debt.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
request, ask, solicit, undertake
kou, ukeru, SEI, SHIN
Left: word 言 (sound waves out of a mouth 口), right: young, blue 青 (Growing plants appear in the moonshine 月 as blue and young)
The words of the youth are (nothing but) requests.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
to pickle (food), soak
tsukaru/keru, SHI
Left: water 氵, right: liability/blame 責 (for growing plants and money 貝)
Water is necessary (= has a liability), when the pickles get soaked.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
our country, home country, Japan

Left: bushy tree (cf. ,丰), right: village ⻏
Like a bushy tree in a village is our country Japan.  
JLPT -Joyo 7
only, just, merely, a few, a tiny bit
wazuka, KIN
Left: person 人, right: blooming flower 堇 (plant 艹 with 2 blossoms ロロ at growing plant )
A person (watches) a blowing flower: How can this be only a tiny bit?  

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