Memory phrase for the character: 溪

溪

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Meaning rivulet =small river, creek

Pronunciation

xī

Explanation

Left: water 氵, right: What? WHERE? 奚 (The down-reaching hand 爫 wants to fish with the thread 糸 something big 大, but: What? Where?)

Mnemonic
 
To get to the water, you need to reach down and it seems like a 'big thread', then it is a rivulet.

Radicals

氵 Water
爫 reaching downwardsShows a hand reaching downwards to pluck sth.
糸 threadIt has in its upper part the radical "short thread" 幺.
大 big, huge
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 Vocabulary

溪流 xī liú  stream
小溪 xiǎo xī  brook; streamlet
本溪 Běn xī  Benxi prefecture level city in Liaoning province in northeast China
涧溪 jiàn xī  mountain stream; stream in a valley
溪壑 xī hè  valley; mountain gorge
溪壑 xī hè  

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