Memory phrase for the Kanji: 夺
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Meaning
| to seize, to take away forcibly, strive for
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Pronunciation |
duó |
Explanation |
Top: big 大, bottom: skillful hand 寸 |
Mnemonic
| With a big and skillful hand you can seize or strive/compete for sth.
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Radicals
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大
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big, huge | |
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寸
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skillful hand | Image of a hand 一 forearm 丨 and pulse 丶. It was originally also the distance of one inch (Length: 1 ts'wun = 3.72 cm) from the hand's palm to the pulse. This also stood for a small amount. In the mnemonic, it is used as "skillful hand". |
Tip: Go to the radicals that are contained in this character and learn all the characters with this radical systematically!
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Vocabulary
| 夺取 |
duó qǔ |
to seize; capture; to wrest control of |
| 争夺 |
zhēng duó |
fight over; contest; vie over |
| 掠夺 |
lüè duó |
to plunder, to rob |
| 剥夺 |
bō duó |
to deprive; to expropriate; to strip (sb of his property) |
| 争分夺秒 |
zhēng fēn duó miǎo |
lit. fight minutes, snatch seconds (idiom); a race against time; making every second count |
| 篡夺 |
cuàn duó |
to usurp; to seize |
| 攫夺 |
jué duó |
to seize; to pillage; to plunder |
| 攫夺 |
jué duó |
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