Memory phrase for the character: 叩

叩

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Meaning to knock, to kowtow

Pronunciation

kòu

Explanation

Left: mouth 口, right: bent person卩

Mnemonic
 
The sound (= what comes out of the mouth) of a bent person is a knocking. (e.g. with the walking stick 丨 on the ground)

Radicals

口 mouth, openingThis is a small square. If it is bigger: 囗, it is an enclosure.
卩 bent personshows a person 人 bowing down deeply. (Further radicals with "person" are: sitting 匕 sitting cross-legged 夂, lying , kneeling ⺈, skilled 才, bending マ,卩, slumped 㔾 or husband 夫)
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 Vocabulary

叩头 kòu tóu  to kowtow (traditional greeting)
跪叩 guì kòu  to kowtow
跪叩 guì kòu  
跪叩 guì kòu  

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