Memory phrase for the character: 沌

沌

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Meaning

confused, turbid

Pronunciation

dùn

Explanation

 Left: water 氵, right: barracks 屯 (On fertile ground, where growing shoots 屮 pierced the ground 一 they built a barracks.)

Mnemonic
 
If you build in a swamp (= where there is water and shoots) a barracks, things get confused.

Radicals

氵 waterSimplified from this water 水
屯 barracksbarracks, to station (soldiers), village
屮 sprout




 Vocabulary

混沌 hùn dùn  primal chaos; formless mass before creation in Chinese mythology; muddled; innocent as a baby
混沌学 hùn dùn xué  chaos theory (math.)
混沌学 hùn dùn xué  

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