Memory phrase for the character: 卧

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Left: minister, official 臣 (= eye wide open), right: divine 卜 (here: a rotated cover 亠)

For the staring eyes you need a (rotated) cover if you want to lie down to sleep.

臣	minister
卜	oracle, mysticism	This radical is considered to be a simplification of: fortune telling 占 (crack 卜 in the shell 口 of a turtle from which the fortune was told.). Sometimes it is read as a forking of a road.

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卧榻	wò tà	a couch; a narrow bed
食荼卧棘	shí tú wò jí	to eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns (idiom); to share the hard life of the common people
卧薪尝胆	wò xīn cháng dǎn	lit. to lie on firewood and taste gall (idiom); fig. suffering patiently, but firmly resolved on revenge
卧铺	wò pù	a bed (on a train); a couchette
卧室	wò shì	bedroom
横躺竖卧	héng tǎng shù wò	to lie down all over the place; exhausted and in disarray
仰卧	yǎng wò	to lie supine
蜷卧	quán wò	to curl up; to lie curled up
蜷卧	quán wò

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