TSUMUGU · C1 (est.) · 字
卉
卉 ＝ 屮
ㄏㄨㄟˋ · huì
noun — plants, herbage; flowers collectively
字源 FORM — what the parts do
屮義a sprout pushing up — three of them
Three sprouts (屮) breaking the ground together — not one plant but a spread of them, the general name for growing things: 花卉、奇花異卉. The picture is a field of green, several shoots at once.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
三棵芽（屮）一起破土——不是一棵，是一片草，就是卉。
Three shoots (屮) push up through the soil at once — not a single plant but a spread of green.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)卉、草木總名— plants, herbage
→花卉、奇花異卉— flowers and plants常用
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension
關 · Related
艸cǎothe fuller grass radical — 艸 is two sprouts (the 草 head); 卉 stacks three for "all the plants"卅sàthe lookalike — 卅 is thirty, three tens joined flat; 卉 grows three sprouts up