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TSUMUGU · C1 (est.) · 字
滋 character · C1 (est.)
滋 ＝ 氵 ＋ 兹
ㄗ · zī
verb — to grow, nourish, breed; to stir up

字源 FORM — what the parts do

氵義water
兹聲zī — gives the sounddoubled silk-threads 玆 — here for the reading, this
Water (氵) with 兹 zī. Water reaches a thing and it swells and multiplies — to grow, to breed (滋生, 滋長). Water that feeds rather than floods nourishes: 滋養, 滋潤, and the flavour it draws out, 滋味. Where it breeds trouble, it stirs up: 滋事.

故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by

水（氵）一澆下去，根芽就一茬茬冒出來。
The water (氵) reaches down and the shoots come up, crop after crop.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)滋生、滋長— to grow, breed, multiply常用
→滋養、滋潤— to nourish, moisten常用
⇒滋味— flavour, taste常用
⇒滋事— to stir up trouble
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension
關 · Related
慈cíthe 兹 series — kindness, heart 心 instead of water磁cíthe 兹 series — magnetism, stone 石 instead of water