TSUMUGU · B1 (est.) · 字
核
核 ＝ 木 ＋ 亥
ㄏㄜˊ · hé
noun — pit, kernel; core, nucleus
字源 FORM — what the parts do
亥聲hài — gives the soundthe last of the twelve branches
IFhài → hé — the reading shifted off the donor
Wood (木) with 亥 hài, the sound. The hard seed at a fruit's center — the pit, the kernel. From the center-most part, the core of anything: 核心, 核子. 亥 carries the sound, shifted from hài to hé. 亥 also frames 該 gāi, 孩 hái.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
咬開果肉，正中那顆硬籽（木）——核。
Bite through the flesh; the hard seed (木) dead-center — the pit.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)果核、核仁— pit, kernel常用
→核心、核子— core, nucleus常用
⇒核實、審核— to verify — to get to the kernel
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension
關 · Related
亥hàithe sound donor, bare — the last earthly branch