Memory phrase for the character: 龈

龈

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Meaning

to bite, to gnaw, gums (of the teeth)

Pronunciation

kěn, yín

Explanation

Left: tooth 齿/齒 (Below the nose 止 an open mouth 凵 with teeth 人), right: 'not good' 艮 ('good' would be 良, but here the accent 丶 is missing, thus 'not good')

Mnemonic

(They destroy something:) The teeth are not good when they: bite.

Radicals

齒	tooth	Image of a nose 卜 and a mouth 一,凵 with teeth 米
止	stop, to end	At top the picture of a left foot and at bottom a limiting line. "The foot stands at the line 一 and stops."
艮	not good	This 良 is the character for "good", but since the accent is missing it is understood as "not good".

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Vocabulary

龈脓肿	yín nóng zhǒng	gumboil
龈颚音	yín è yīn	prepalatal sound (linguistics)
颚龈音	è yín yīn	prepalatal or palatal sound (linguistics); palato-alveolar consonant (linguistics)
龈腭音	yín è yīn	alveo-palatal sound (linguistics)
龈音	yín yīn	alveolar sound (linguistics)
龈音	yín yīn

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