蓄
amass, raise, hoard, store
Readings
On'yomi
- チク
Kun'yomi
- たくわ.える
Meaning
蓄 centers on gathering and keeping resources over time: amassing, storing, hoarding, or raising livestock as a form of accumulated wealth.
Most common words using 蓄
20 of 47- 蓄積ちくせきN1
accumulation; accumulate; store
- 貯蓄ちょちくN2
savings
- 蓄えたくわえ
store; reserve; stock; savings
- 備蓄びちく
stocking up (in case of emergency); stockpile; reserves; storing; laying in (supplies)
- 蓄電池ちくでんち
storage battery
- 蓄えるたくわえるN2
to store; to save up; to stock up on; to lay in stock; to set aside
- 蓄電ちくでん
storage of electricity
- 蘊蓄うんちく
great erudition; extensive knowledge; vast stock of knowledge
- 蓄音機ちくおんき
gramophone; phonograph
- 蓄財ちくざい
amassing of wealth
- 蓄光ちっこう
phosphorescence; luminescence
- 含蓄がんちく
implication; significance; connotation; depth of meaning; complications of a problem
- 蓄熱ちくねつ
heat reserve; thermal storage
- 蓄膿症ちくのうしょう
empyema
- 備荒貯蓄びこうちょちく
famine-relief fund
- 備蓄品びちくひん
stockpiled materials; stockpiled supplies
- 備蓄米びちくまい
stockpile rice (kept by the government to use as emergency provisions); reserved rice
- 勤倹貯蓄きんけんちょちく
thrift and saving
- 含蓄のあるがんちくのある
significant; full of meaning; pregnant (with meaning); suggestive
- 家計貯蓄かけいちょちく
household savings
Study
Etymology
蓄 combines 艹 (grass/plants) with 畜 (livestock), suggesting the idea of storing up plant matter or raising animals as accumulated resources.
Meaning mnemonic
Grass 艹 on top of livestock 畜: picture storing hay for animals, or raising livestock as a way to amass wealth.
Reading mnemonic
For チク, imagine a chick pecking at stored grain: chick -> チク, and the grain is being hoarded away.