Memory phrase for the character: 拇

拇

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Meaning thumb, big toe

Pronunciation

mǔ

Explanation

Left: hand 扌, right: mother 母 (= woman 女 with emphasized, swollen bosom : when breast-feeding)

Mnemonic
 
At the hand it is seen as the 'mother', the: thumb.

Radicals

扌 hand
母 motherShows 'woman' 女 with a longer right stroke ノ and with two dots : that are swollen breasts of a nursing (breast-feeding) woman.
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 Vocabulary

拇指 mǔ zhǐ  thumb; big toe
大拇指 dà mu zhǐ  thumb; Tom Thumb (small person in folk tales)
翘拇指 qiáo mǔ zhǐ  thumbs up
翘拇指 qiáo mǔ zhǐ  

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