Memory phrase for the character: 渴

渴



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Meaning

thirsty

Pronunciation

 kě

Explanation

 Left: Water 氵, right: interrogation 曷 (The mouth with tongue 日 enwraps 勹 the person 人 in the corner at the interrogation.) cf. to drink 喝

Mnemonic
 
He wants to drink water, because under the sun a wrapped person is: thirsty.

Radicals

氵 waterSimplified from this water 水
曷 interrogationalso as an interrogative particle: why, how, when
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 Vocabulary

渴望 kě wàng  to thirst for; to long for
口渴 kǒu kě  thirsty
如饥似渴 rú jī sì kě  to hunger for sth (idiom); eagerly; to long for sth
如饥似渴 rú jī sì kě  

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