脞
minced meat, trifles
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Readings
On'yomi
- サ
Kun'yomi
- こまかい
Meaning
脞 centers on small, fragmented things: minced meat broken into tiny pieces, and by extension, trifles or insignificant details.
Study
Etymology
脞 combines the flesh radical ⺼ with 坐, which likely contributes the sound. The exact historical development is uncertain, but the structure suggests a phono-semantic compound related to meat or body parts.
Meaning mnemonic
The flesh radical ⺼ on the left suggests meat, and 坐 on the right looks like two people sitting over earth. Imagine them sitting around a table, mincing meat into tiny, trivial pieces.
Reading mnemonic
For サ, picture a chef mincing meat while sitting on a sack of salt: sack -> サ, and the salt falls onto the minced meat.