積
Mnemonic
Each season, grain stacks higher in your barn. Neighbors blame you for hoarding, but you know that true wealth must accrue over time—each harvest adding another golden layer to the towering pile. You ignore the blame and keep stacking grain until the rafters groan.
Additional thoughts
Picture a barn bursting at the seams: golden grain piled floor to ceiling while angry neighbors point fingers. The blame fuels your determination to accumulate even more.Quick recall
Grain keeps piling up despite the blame, because riches accrue harvest after harvest.Details
The keyword for 積 is accrue. This kanji conveys the idea of piling up, accumulating, or amassing over time. It refers to the gradual building up of volume, quantity, or experience through repeated addition, much like stacking grain after each harvest. The character is also used in mathematical contexts to denote a product (as in multiplication) and can refer to area or volume as measurements of accumulated space.
- On'yomi
- せき
- Kun'yomi
- つ.む、-づ.み、つ.もる、つ.もり