Memory phrase for the character: 咆
咆
Meaning
to roar Pronunciation páo Explanation Left: mouth 口, right: enwrap 包 (The wrap 勹 itself 己 makes it to be wrapped.)
Mnemonic
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The mouth is like enwrapped, when: roaring. Radicals
口
mouth, opening This is a small square. If it is bigger: 囗, it is an enclosure.
包
package, to cover, to wrap The upper part 勹 itself already stands for "to enwrap" Actually it is with a "snake" 巳, but simplified understood as a variation of self 己.
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Vocabulary
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咆哮 páo xiào
to roar; to thunder; to snarl; to bluster (of wind, waves etc); crashing waves (onomatopoeia); to rage (of a person)
咆哮如雷
páo xiào rú léi
to be in a thundering rage (idiom)
咆哮如雷
páo xiào rú léi
