Memory phrase for the Kanji: 夏


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Meaning summer

Pronunciation

xià

Explanation

From top: cover (against the sun), I, myself (The emphasized eye is myself.), upturned foot (=sitting cross-legged)

Mnemonic


 
Covered (= in the shade) I myself sit cross-legged, because it is summer.

Radicals

one
head, leaderPicture of an eye with emphasized eye-brows to express the special: the head or the chief. (When used as a radical often without eye-brows meaning forehead). It is always at the right side of a character.
upturned footupturned foot or sitting crossed-legged - Do not mistake with the: "hand with a stick": /
selfThe Radical shows an eye and has an emphasis to express that the own person is meant.
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 Vocabulary

 夏季  xià jì  summer
 夏天  xià tiān  summer
 夏天  xià tiān  

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