漬ける
つける · tsukeru · JLPT N4 · verb-ichidan
to pickle
🥒🫙 tsukeru → tsukemono: the verb behind Japan's pickles (漬物)
Tsukemono (漬物, pickles) is literally a tsuke-thing: a thing that has been soaked. The kanji 漬 carries the water radical 氵 on the left, marking it as the wet tsukeru, distinct from 付ける (attach) and 点ける (switch on).