Memory phrase for the character: 擅

擅

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Meaning

without authority, to usurp, to monopolize, to be good at

Pronunciation

shàn

Explanation

Left: hand 扌, right: 亶 (cover 亠, rotate 回, sun rise 旦)

Mnemonic

(The rotatable blind [= jalousie] at the window shall be closed during the night:) The hand that turns the cover, before the sunrise, does this: unauthorized.

Radicals

扌	hand	Simplification of this hand 手
亶	???
亠	lid
回	revolve, return
旦	sun rise	The sun 日 is just above the horizon 一 at sunrise.

Vocabulary

擅自	shàn zì	without permission; of one's own initiative
擅长	shàn cháng	to be good at; to be expert in
擅离职守	shàn lí zhí shǒu	AWOL (Absent Without Leave, military term)
擅离职守	shàn lí zhí shǒu

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