Memory phrase for the Kanji: 噬
噬
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Meaning
to bite, to devour
Pronunciation
shì
Explanation
Left: mouth 口, right: 筮 (bamboo 竹, witch 巫 [She's doing the work 工 of two persons 从], here: variant of: squeeze in 夹)
Mnemonic
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The mouth, in which bamboo is squeezed in: is biting.
Radicals
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噬菌体
shì jūn tǐ
bacteriophage; phage; virus that infects bacteria
吞噬
tūn shì
to swallow; to engulf; to gobble up
巨噬细胞
jù shì xì bāo
macrophage
巨噬细胞
jù shì xì bāo