Plants & vegetation
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What the component colors mean
言
Blue - the main radical the kanji is filed under in dictionaries.
氵
Green - a component that hints at the meaning.
生
Orange - a component that hints at the reading (sound).
?
Grey - another building block, with no clear meaning or sound role.
Example words
菓子
sweets, confectionery
製菓
confectionery making
銘菓
famous local sweets
Example words
荒野
wilderness
荒廃
ruin, devastation
荒い
rough, wild
Example words
薪炭
firewood and charcoal
薪能
firelight Noh play
薪割り
splitting firewood
Example words
蓄積
accumulation
貯蓄
savings
蓄える
to store up, to save
Example words
薄情
heartless, cold
希薄
thin, diluted, sparse
薄い
thin, light (color)
Example words
繁茂
luxuriant growth
茂る
to grow thick
茂み
thicket, bush
Practice
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