Memory phrase for the character: 悼

悼

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Meaning

mourn, lament

Pronunciation

dào

Explanation

 Left: feeling 忄, right: excellent 卓 ([Before the day happens:] Fortune telling 卜/占 early at the morning 早 is excellent)

Mnemonic
 
Can feelings be excellent, when you are mourning?

Radicals

忄 feelings
卓 outstanding, excellentFortune telling 占 early at the morning 早 is excellent.
卜 oracle, mysticismThis radical is considered to be a simplification of: fortune telling 占 (crack 卜 in the shell 口 of a turtle from which the fortune was told.). Sometimes it is read as a forking of a road.
早 early, morning




 Vocabulary

哀悼 āi dào  to grieve over sb's death; to lament sb's death; mourning
追悼 zhuī dào  mourning; memorial (service etc)
悼念 dào niàn  to grieve
悼念 dào niàn  

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