Memory phrase for the character: 癫


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Meaning convulsions, crazy, mentally deranged

Pronunciation

diān

Explanation

Outside: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick), inside: apex, inverted 颠 (It is truely that the forehead 页 is the apex, where you return/inverte)

Mnemonic


 
The disease, where you "inverte" are the convulsions of a crazy person.

Radicals

sicknessSimilar radicals are building 广 or cliff .
really, truly
head, leaderPicture of an eye with emphasized eye-brows to express the special: the head or the chief. (When used as a radical often without eye-brows meaning forehead). It is always at the right side of a character.
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 Vocabulary

癫痫 diān xián  epilepsy
癫狂 diān kuáng  deranged; mad; cracked; zany
疯癫 fēng diān  insane; crazy
疯癫 fēng diān  


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