Memory phrase for the character: 擒

擒

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Meaning

to capture, catch, seize, arrest

Pronunciation

qín

Explanation

Left hand 扌, right: poultry 禽 (The image of a chicken coop with a ladder 禸 stands: for poultry)

Mnemonic

By hand the poultry can be: captured.

Radicals

扌	hand	Simplification of this hand 手
禸	track	Etymologically this is derived from a trace, but is seen in the Hanzi-Trainer as the lower part of the scorpion 禺.
㐫	trash can	At the top a cover 亠 and below "fearful 㐫" which is free interpreted as "trash can".
离	to part from	The lower part 禸 shows two hind legs 冂 and the sting 厶 from a scorpion. It shall be put into a trash can 㐫 so that it leaves us.

Vocabulary

生擒	shēng qín	to capture alive
欲擒故纵	yù qín gù zòng	In order to capture, one must let loose.; to loosen the reins only to grasp them better
束手就擒	shù shǒu jiù qín	hands tied and waiting to be captured
束手就擒	shù shǒu jiù qín

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