Memory phrase for the character: 指

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

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

扌	hand
旨	order, purpose
匕	spoon, ladle	In 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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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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