Memory phrase for the character: 掷

掷

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Meaning to toss, to throw dice

Pronunciation

zhì

Explanation

Left: hand 扌, right: serious, solemn 郑 (If the mountain pass 丷 in the sky 天 is closed 关, for the village ⻏ this will be: serious.)

Mnemonic
 
By hand out of 丷 into the sky over the village it was tossed.

Radicals

扌 hand
丷 coming out
天 skyDon't mistake with "early death" 夭, even if there is some overlapping in the explanations.　
⻏ villageThis radical is always at the right side of the hanzi and means "village". Please note the difference to this radical 阝, which means "hill" and is always at the left side of the character.
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 Vocabulary

投掷 tóu zhì  to throw sth a long distance; to hurl; to throw at; to throw (dice etc); to flip (a coin)
投掷 tóu zhì  

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