Memory phrase for the character: 形

形

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Meaning

appearance, shape, form

Pronunciation

 xíng

Explanation

 Left: open, start 开 (image of the entrance gate of a buddh. temple), right: hair 彡

Mnemonic
 
With open hair you are in good appearance.

Radicals

开 to open, start, turn onCan be seen as the entrance gate of a Buddhist temple with two traverses. This gate is always open.
彡 hair or bristle
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 Vocabulary

形而上学 xíng ér shàng xué  metaphysics
梯形 tī xíng  trapezoid
矩形 jǔ xíng  rectangle
弓形 gōng xíng  circular segment
拱形 gǒng xíng  arch
马蹄形 mǎ tí xíng  horseshoe shape
菱形 líng xíng  rhombus
自惭形秽 zì cán xíng huì  to feel ashamed of one's inferiority (idiom); to feel inferior
鹃形目 juān xíng mù  Cuculiformes, order of birds including cuckoo
畸形 jī xíng  deformity; birth defect; abnormality
遁形 dùn xíng  to vanish; to hide; to cover one's traces
遁形 dùn xíng  

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