Memory phrase for the Kanji: 膊


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Meaning shoulder, upper arm

Pronunciation

Explanation

Left: body part /, right: to announce (just now with skillful hand ) [A hand for holding an item is what I need just now] cf. elbow 肘

Mnemonic


 
The body part, that somehow looks like the upper body and where my 'skillful hand' is, is the shoulder.

Radicals

meatand body parts
to announce. just now and with a skillful hand
just, just now
skillful handImage of a hand forearm and pulse . 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".
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 Vocabulary

 胳膊  gē bo  arm
 赤膊  chì bó  bare to the waist
 袒膊  tǎn bó  to strip to the waist; to be bare to the waist
 胳膊肘朝外拐  gē bo zhǒu cháo wài guǎi  the elbow turns the wrong way; to favor an outsider instead of someone on one's own side (idiom)
 胳膊肘朝外拐  gē bo zhǒu cháo wài guǎi  


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