蔣 (jiǎng) — Manchurian wild rice (the plant); a surname (Chiang)

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TSUMUGU · TOCFL C1 (est.) · 字

蔣 character · TOCFL C1 (est.)

蔣＝艸＋將

ㄐㄧㄤˇ · jiǎng

noun — Manchurian wild rice (the plant); a surname (Chiang)

字源 FORM — what the parts do

艸義grass, a plantwritten 艹 on top

將聲jiāng — gives the sound, worn to jiǎnga hand lifting meat forward, the donor seen also in 獎漿醬

Tjiāng → jiǎng — the tone alone shifts

Grass (艸) over 將 (jiāng) — a water plant, Manchurian wild rice, the reed whose swollen stem is eaten as 茭白. 將 lends the sound, worn from level tone to jiǎng. The plant name became a surname; its best-known bearer is 蔣介石.

故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by

水邊一片菰草（艸），莖肥得能吃——一隻手把它的嫩莖端上桌（將）。

A stand of wild rice (艸) at the water's edge, stems swollen and edible — a hand lifts the tender shoots to the table (將).

字源記憶法

意 · Meanings

(本義)菰、茭白— Manchurian wild rice (the plant)

→姓蔣— a surname (Chiang)常用

(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension