汁
しる · shiru · JLPT N2 · noun
soup
🧃🍲 Water radical 氵 on the left marks it as a liquid: juice or soup
汁 — water radical 氵 + ten 十
A semantic-phonetic compound. The water radical 氵 signals a liquid, while 十 (originally read with a sound close to zhī) provides the phonetic cue. Together they denote sap or juice — any liquid squeezed from a plant or food.