Memory phrase for the character: 慈


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Meaning compassionate, gentle, kind, humane

Pronunciation

Explanation

Top: now/here (2x mysterious [turning disc , var. of thread ] or variation of magnet [= the mysterious stone]), below: heart

Mnemonic


 
Like a magnet is his heart: so compassionate.

Radicals

now, here, thisComprises twice the radical "mysterious "
mysteriousThis radical is easy to remember if you think of “magnet ” (cf. magnet, porcelain [cí]), where stones are hanging at strings (simplified to and fixed with a bracket ) behave mysteriously.
lid
heartImage of a heart with coronary arteries.
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 Vocabulary

慈祥 cí xiáng  kindly; benevolent (often of older person)
慈善 cí shàn  benevolent; charitable
慈爱 cí ài  love; devotion (to children); affection, esp. towards children
贤淑仁慈 xián shū rén cí  a virtuous and benevolent woman (idiom)
贤淑仁慈 xián shū rén cí  

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