Memory phrase for the character: 桨

桨

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Meaning paddle, oar

Pronunciation

jiǎng

Explanation

Top: bed 丬(here: simplification of fragment 爿 cf. 片) and evening 夕 (here: image of a paddle), bottom: tree 木

Mnemonic
 
A (whittled) fragment, that looks like a paddle 夕, and is made of wood: the paddle.

Radicals

丬 bedSimplification of fragment: 爿 which shows a tree split lengthwise. (片 is the other half) - Not at least because of its use with these characters 寐, 寝 for 'sleep', it got the meaning of "bed".
夕 eveningThis radical is similar to moon: 月, but at the evening the moon is not complete and thus only one inner line.
木 tree
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 Vocabulary

螺旋桨 luó xuán jiǎng  propeller
螺桨毂 luó jiǎng gū  propeller hub
螺桨 luó jiǎng  propeller
螺桨 luó jiǎng  

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