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39 控 Abstain

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Radical Combination

  • 扌 Fingers
  • 空 Sky

Meaning

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Abstain

Mnemonic

Raise your fingers to the sky to symbolize that you abstain from something. If someone offers you fur coats, raise your fingers to abstain. If someone tries to get you to bully someone, raise your fingers to abstain.

Hints

Abstaining from doing what other people are doing is important sometimes. So make sure you never forget the universal abstaining symbol.

Readings

On’yomi

こう

Kun’yomi

ひか

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

This symbol to abstain comes from the hicatee (ひか) turtle. The hicatee is a Central American river turtle hunted for its meat, eggs, and shell. Therefore, the poor hicatee is endangered. So people started to rally around it, abstaining from hurting them anymore. They raised their fingers to the sky and shouted, "I abstain from harming this hicatee!"

Hints

Picture yourself in Central America. Standing in the water, blocking poachers from the hicatee turtles. "Abstain!" you shout at them.

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  • 控え
    • ひかえ
    • Backup
  • 控える
    • ひかえる
    • To Abstain
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