Memory phrase for the character: 揽

揽

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Meaning to seize, to grasp, to take hold of, monopolize

Pronunciation

lǎn

Explanation

Left: hand 扌, right: to look at 览 (The cut 刂 bamboo 竹 is what I am looking 见/見 at.)

Mnemonic
 
The hand wants the cut bamboo, which he saw and: seizes it.

Radicals

扌 hand
览 to look at
见 to seeThis radical is simplified from 見, that is understood as "an eye 目 on legs 儿", expressing a "looking around".
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 Vocabulary

独揽 dú lǎn  to monopolize
包揽 bāo lǎn  to monopolize; to take on responsibility over everything; to undertake the whole task
统揽 tǒng lǎn  to centralize
统揽 tǒng lǎn  

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