Memory phrase for the Kanji: 克


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Meaning

to subdue, to overthrow, gram

Pronunciation

Explanation

Top: ten , below: older brother (A big mouth on feet )

Mnemonic

(The inferior must leave the battle-field, such as to run away using the legs:) The old gets legs , if it is subdued.

Radicals

ancient, old, formerOriginally derived from the picture of a skull, hence "old". But the idea of a burial mound is also helpful.
legsSimplified from with the meaning 'son'. In the explanations used as 'two legs'.
elder brother
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Vocabulary

 克服  kè fú  (try to) overcome (hardships etc); to conquer; to put up with; to endure
 顿涅茨克  Dùn niè cí kè  Donetsk
 圣潘克勒斯站  shèng Pān kè lēi sī zhàn  Saint Pancras (London railway station)
 阿克赛钦  Ā kè sài qīn  Aksai Chin, a disputed region in the Tibetan plateau
 贝娅特丽克丝  Bèi yà tè lí kè sī  Beatrix (name)
 鄂霍次克海  È huò cì kè hǎi  sea of Okhotsk
 马克沁机枪  Mǎ kè qìn jī qiāng  Maxim machine gun
 马克沁  Mǎ kè qìn  Sir Hiram Maxim (1840-1916), American British inventor of the Maxim machine gun
 盎格鲁萨克逊  àng gé lǔ sà kè xùn  Anglo-Saxon
 捷克斯洛伐克  Jié kè Sī luò fá kè  Republic of Czechoslovakia (1918-1992)
 捷克斯洛伐克  Jié kè Sī luò fá kè  Republic of Czechoslovakia (1918-1992)
 捷克斯洛伐克  Jié kè Sī luò fá kè  

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