Mnemonic
You jam your hand into a narrow hole in a tree trunk, groping for a saw lodged deep inside. You squeeze your fist around the handle so fiercely that sticky sap oozes out between your fingers like juice wrung from ripe fruit. The tighter you squeeze, the more the hole drips.
Additional thoughts
Picture the physical strain: hand cramped inside the hole, white knuckles around the saw handle, sap streaming out under pressure—just like wringing an udder or squeezing citrus.Quick recall
A hand jammed in a hole grabs a saw and squeezes until sap pours out.Details
The keyword for 搾 is squeeze. This kanji refers to the act of pressing or wringing something tightly in order to extract liquid from it, such as squeezing juice from fruit or wringing milk from an udder. It carries the nuance of applying strong physical pressure to force out contents, and by extension it can also imply exploiting or extorting someone, as in squeezing money or labor out of people.
- On'yomi
- さく
- Kun'yomi
- しぼ.る