精

Kanji

精

Level

N2

Meaning

Refine, energy, spirit

On'yomi

セイ,ショウ

Strokes

14

Common compounds

精神 (せいしん) spirit, mind, 精密 (せいみつ) precise, 精米 (せいまい) rice polishing

Memory hook

"Refine" combines "rice" (米) and "blue/green" (青). Imagine polishing rice until it's perfectly pure, or the essence of something, like the blue-green purity of a gem.

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