Memory phrase for the character: 屋

屋

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Meaning

house, building

Pronunciation

 wū

Explanation

 Outside: buttocks: 尸 (in side view), below: reach-a-target 至 (From the sky 一 an arrow 厶 comes to the earth 土: reaching it.)

Mnemonic
 
The buttocks reaches his house.

Radicals

尸 buttocks in side viewThis radical has actually the meaning: corpse 尸. But due to its use in tail 尾, urine 尿, or flatulence 屁, it is considered to generally mean 'buttocks'.
至 to arrive, reachShows an arrow, falling to the ground and such reached its target.
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 Vocabulary

房屋 fáng wū  house; building
屋子 wū zi  house; room
屋顶 wū dǐng  roof
茅屋 máo wū  thatched cottage
华屋丘墟 huá wū qiū xū  magnificent building reduced to a mound of rubble (idiom); fig. all one's plans in ruins
屋檐 wū yán  eaves; rafts
屋檐 wū yán  

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