The Japanese Radical: 石


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Meaning
stone    石

Explanation Shows a variation of cliff 厂 with a stone 囗 below.

Used in these characters:
JLPT 3Joyo 1
stone, rock
ishi, SEKI, SHAKU
Top: var. of cliff 厂, bottom: stone 口
Below the cliff are stones.  
JLPT 3Joyo 2
rock, crag
iwa, GAN
Top: mountain 山, bottom: stone 石 (Below the cliff 厂 are stones 口)
In size between a mountain and a stone: a rock  
JLPT 4Joyo 3
research, polish, grind, sharpen
togu, KEN
Left: stone 石 (Below the cliff 厂 are stones 口), right: open, start 开 (entrance gate of a Shintō-shrine cf. 開)
(Only polished gems show their beauty:) A stone "opens", if it is grinded for being researched.  
JLPT 2Joyo 5
certainly, sure, ascertain, confirm, firm
tashika, KAKU
Left: stone 石 (Below the cliff 厂 are stones 口), right: bird 隹 with a comb 冖
The stone hits the bird with that cap! Certainly!  
JLPT 2Joyo 5
tear, break, crack
yaburu/reru, HA
Left: stone 石 (Below the cliff 厂 are stones 口), right: skin 皮 (The animal's skin 厂 is peeled off with a knife 丨 by hand 又)
A stone on the skin cause tears and breaks.  
JLPT 2Joyo 6
sand, grit
suna, SA, SHA
Left: stone 石 (Below the cliff 厂 are stones 口), right: few/little 少 (Such a small 小 stroke ノ is too little.)
If stones are made to "fewer", you get sand.  
JLPT 1Joyo 6
magnet, porcelain
JI
Left: stone 石 (Below the cliff 厂 are stones 口.), right: 兹 2x mysterious 玄 (Here: mounting bracket 艹 with two hanging threads 糸)
These stones behave mysteriously when hung 艹 on strings, because they are magnetic. (or porcelain)  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
Go (= the game)
GO
Top: image of a grain shovel/scoop 其, that is seen here as the play board for 'Go', bottom: stone 石 as gaming piece
Use a 'grain-scoop'-like play board with the play-stones to play 'Go'.  
JLPT 2Joyo 7
hard, solid, stiff
katai,
Left: stone 石, right: renew 更 (Daily sunrise: The length 丈 or size 大 of the sun 日 shows renewedly.)
Stones show renewedly that they are hard and solid.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
break, smash, crush
kudaku/keru, SAI
Left: stone 石 (Below the cliff 厂 are stones 口), right: nine 九, ten 十
A stone causes it in nine out of ten cases: a break.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
saltpeter, niter/nitrate, gunpowder
SHŌ
Left: stone 石 (Below the cliff 厂 are stones 口), right: alike/imitate 肖 (Small 小 bodies 月/肉 are alike.) [Since 焼 or 焦 are also pronounced as SHŌ, saltpetre is phonetically: “burning stone”].
To a stone this looks 'alike', but it is: nitrate.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
hidden reef
SHŌ
Left: stone 石, right: charcoal, scorching, fret 焦 (a bird 隹 on fire 灬 turns into: charcoal)
These stones are (as bad) as scorching: At a hidden reef.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
foundation, basis
ishizue, SO
Left: stone 石, right: forest 林 (here: two poles of the building), below: correct 正
Stones below the both poles are correct as: foundation.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
clearing (of land), develop, make accessible
TAKU
Left: hand 扌, right: stone 石 (Below the cliff 厂 are stones 口)
The hand (removes) the stones when clearing the land.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
tombstone, monument
HI
Left: stone 石, right: ignoble, vulgar 卑 (I emphasized already twice ノノ that this field 田 is tenfold 十 ignoble.)
The stone that is ignoble is the tombstone.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
cannon, slingshot, gun barrel

Left: stone 石 (Below the cliff 厂 are stones 口), right: wrap 包 (The wrap 勹 itself 己 makes it to be wrapped.)
Stones were 'wrapped' in a slingshot (catapult), which is like a cannon.  
JLPT 2Joyo 7
polish, rub, burnish, clean
migaku, MA
广
Outside and top: hemp 麻 (Protected in the building 广 is a whole forest 林 of hemp), below: stone 石
With hemp stones can be polished.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
sulfur
RYŪ
Left: stone 石, right shows a part of: 'to flow' 流 (newborn baby [child 子 turned upside down, because at birth with head first], [amniotic] fluid 川/水)
[The melting point is 115°C] A stone that can flow is sulfur.  
JLPT -Joyo 7
jealousy, envy, to begrudge
netamu, TO
Left: woman 女, right: stone 石
When a woman acts "like a stone", she is jealous.  

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