Memory phrase for the character: 尴

尴

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Meaning embarrassed, ill at ease

Pronunciation

gān

Explanation

Left: broken leg 尢 (Big 大 person with broken 乚 leg), right: supervise 监 (For the cut bamboo 监 [= knife刂 & half bamboo 竹] is a bowl 皿 for its supervision)

Mnemonic
 
Because of your broken leg you need to be "supervised" and thus: you are embarrassed.

Radicals

尢 lame, broken legShows a big 大 person with a broken leg 乚. (Do not confuse with 冘, where also both arms are broken.)
监 to supervise, jailTop: cut bamboo and half of bamboo 竹), below: bowl 皿 .... For cut bamboo (snippets/shred) I need a bowl to "supervise" it.
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 Vocabulary

尴尬 gān gà  awkward; embarrassed
尴尬 gān gà  

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