Memory phrase for the character: 扯

扯

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Meaning

to tear (cloth), to pull, to chat, gossip

Pronunciation

chě

Explanation

 Left: hand 扌, right: to stop 止 (Footprint of a right foot that stops at a line 一)

Mnemonic
 
(If someone else wants it too:) If the hand stops (the taking away), it is a tugging/pulling to the point of tearing.

Radicals

扌 handSimplification of this hand 手
止 stop, to endAt top the picture of a left foot and at bottom a limiting line. "The foot stands at the line 一 and stops."




 Vocabulary

拉扯 lā che  to drag; to pull; to raise a child (through difficulties); to help; to support; to drag in; to chat
瞎扯 xiā chě  to talk irresponsibly; to talk nonsense
鬼扯腿 guǐ chě tuǐ  lit. ghost pulls your leg; involuntary tug of muscles; fig. very unlucky; fig. argumentative; fig. can't help doing it
唠这扯那 láo zhè chě nà  to talk about nothing in particular (idiom)
唠这扯那 láo zhè chě nà  

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