# 稚 childish

(wheat) + (turkey)
★★☆☆☆
13 strokes
BETA

## Onyomi

CHI | it's childish to play with your CHEESE all giving yourself webbed fingers with mozzarella and finger-painting with fondue. Either childish or way too adult in some kind of wet-and-messy way, but either way it is not ok in this household, young lady.

## Mnemonic

| It was childish of you hold the wheat just out of reach of the hungry turkey!

## Jukugo

幼稚園(ようちえん) | kindergarten ★★☆☆☆ 幼稚 (childish, immature) + 園 (public park) = 幼稚園 (kindergarten)
幼稚(ようち) な | childish, immature ★☆☆☆☆ 幼 (childhood) + 稚 (childish) = 幼稚 (childish, immature) childish, immature, puerile. "Hey i wrote POOP on a picture of the president! Want to come see?"

## Lookalikes

| Meaning | Hint | Radical
--- | --- | --- | ---
推 | infer | HAND | 手
唯 | sole or only | MOUTH | 口
稚 | childish | WHEAT |
維 | upkeep | STRING | 糸

Detectives infer the crook's identity based on his HAND-prints.

You got only one MOUTH.

Farmers pick the most childish of WHEAT: the seeds.

STRING helps me keep the turkey in the yard.

## Synonyms

immature, childish 幼稚 幼い