蔬 (shū) — vegetables, edible greens

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TSUMUGU · B1 (est.) · 字

蔬 character · B1 (est.)

蔬＝艸＋疏

ㄕㄨ · shū

noun — vegetables, edible greens

字源 FORM — what the parts do

艸義grass, plant (the grass radical 艹)the 艹 cap — vegetables are plants

疏聲shū — gives the sound and the sense of spread-out rows𤴙 beside 㐬 — to clear and thin out

Plants under the grass cap (艹) — the greens we eat. 疏 shū lends the sound and its own picture of clearing and thinning, the way a vegetable bed is hoed into open rows. From there: 蔬菜, 蔬果.

故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by

草字頭（艹）下的菜，疏疏地（疏）種成一行行——那是蔬菜。

Greens under the grass cap (艹), planted in thinned-out rows (疏) — those are vegetables.

字源記憶法

意 · Meanings

(本義)蔬菜— vegetables常用

→蔬果— vegetables and fruit

(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension