Memory phrase for the character: 昨

昨

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Meaning

yesterday, past

Pronunciation

 zuó

Explanation

 Left: sun/day 日, right: suddenly 乍 (The saw 乍 fells [the tree] suddenly.)

Mnemonic
 
(At midnight:) The present day is "sawn" into yesterday.

Radicals

日 sun, dayThis radical was developed from a circle with a central dot as the image of the sun. As you can hardly draw circles or dots with a brush, it became the current rectangular shape.
乍 suddenly, for the first timeThe saw has its handle ノ at the upper left.
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 Vocabulary

昨天 zuó tiān  yesterday
昨天 zuó tiān  

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