Memory phrase for the Kanji: 嗽
嗽
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Meaning
cough
Pronunciation
sòu
Explanation
Left: mouth 口, right: 欶 (bundle 束 [a mouth behind a tree], lack 欠 [A yawning person 人 is lacking sth.])
Mnemonic
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If you open your mouth so that it's visible from behind the tree, like a yawning 欠 person: that is cough.
Radicals
口
mouth, opening This is a small square. If it is bigger: 囗, it is an enclosure.
欶
|a bundle 束 and to lack 欠
束
bundle The tree 木 stands for many plants (sheafs of rice), which are bound/lashed with a ribbon 口 (cf. 兼) to form a bundle.
欠
lack, yawn Like a person 人 who tears his mouth wide open when yawning and seems to have a lack (of good manners).
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Vocabulary
6185
咳嗽
ké sou
to cough
咳嗽
ké sou