Memory phrase for the character: 弊

弊

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Meaning harm, defeat, detriment, fraud

Pronunciation

bì

Explanation

Top: shabby, (modest) I, myself 敝 (The cloth 巾 is hit/smashed 攵 into four pieces and then as shabby as I am.), below: two hands 廾 (twice this hand 屮 next to each-other and combined)

Mnemonic
 
The four shabby pieces of cloth were striked by two hands and (now) are harmed.

Radicals

敝 shabby, poor(modest) I, myself
攴 rap, strikeShows originally a hand 又 with a whip 卜. It is usually simplified to 攵. Other radicals with a hand are: 又寸廾爫手扌彐右及尹君聿隶兼殳
廾 two handsTwice this hand 屮 (with the fingers 山 towards the top) side by side, which was simplified and combined.
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 Vocabulary

弊病 bì bìng  malady; evil; malpractice; drawback; disadvantage
弊端 bì duān  malpractice; abuse; corrupt practice
流弊 liú bì  malpractice; long-running abuse
流弊 liú bì  

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