Memory phrase for the character: 冢




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Meaning

burial mound, senior (i.e. eldest person in rank)

Pronunciation

zhǒng

Explanation

Top: cover 冖, bottom: 豖 (pig 豕/豚 with a stab wound)

Mnemonic


 
Under a cover is the stabbed pig in a burial mound.

Radicals

coverThis very similar radical 宀 is understood as a roof.
stabbed pig
pigThe zodiac boar is 亥
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 Vocabulary

冢中枯骨 zhǒng zhōng kū gǔ  dried bones in burial mound (idiom); dead and buried
丛冢 cóng zhǒng  mass grave; cluster of graves
丛冢 cóng zhǒng  


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