Memory phrase for the character: 指

指

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Meaning

finger, to point at or to, to indicate

Pronunciation

 zhǐ

Explanation

 Left: hand 扌, right top: sitting person 匕, below: sun 日

Mnemonic
 
The hand of a sitting person points at the sun with: its finger.

Radicals

扌 handSimplification of this hand 手
旨 order, purpose
匕 spoon, ladleIn the explanations this radical is also used as a sitting person. (Further radicals with „person“ are: sitting cross-legged 夂, lying , kneeling ⺈, skilled 才, bending マ,卩, slumped 㔾 or husband 夫)
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 Vocabulary

指出 zhǐ chū  to indicate; to point out
指令 zhǐ lìng  order; command; instruction
食指 shí zhǐ  forefinger; mouths to feed
指责 zhǐ zé  to criticize; to find fault with; to denounce
十二指肠 shí èr zhǐ cháng  duodenum
道琼斯指数 Dào Qióng sī zhǐ shù  Dow Jones industrial average (Wall street stock market index)
瞎指挥 xiā zhǐ huī  lit. to direct blindly; to issue confused orders; to give contradictory directions
沪综指 Hù zōng zhǐ  Shanghai composite index (stock market index)
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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