Memory phrase for the character: 祸


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Meaning disaster, misfortune, calamity

Pronunciation

huò

Explanation

Left: to show 礻/ (= image of an altar), right: chat, gossip (A mouth as big as the chest likes gossip.)

Mnemonic


 
(At the altar, you should be reverently silent:) At the altar they had chats and gossips which caused the: disaster.

Radicals

to show, altarShows a simple altar with a sacrifice and blood is trickling down. Thus the meanings: to show and altar.
gossip, chat, jawHis mouth is as big as the chest , because he likes gossips.
inside, inner
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 Vocabulary

祸害 huò hài  disaster; harm; scourge; bad person; to damage; to harm; to wreck
灾祸 zāi huò  disaster
祸根 huò gēn  root of the trouble; cause of the ruin
罪魁祸首 zuì kuí huò shǒu  criminal ringleader, main offender (idiom); main culprit; fig. main cause of a disaster
祸不旋踵 huò bù xuán zhǒng  trouble is never far away (idiom)
苞藏祸心 bāo cáng huò xīn  to harbor evil intentions (idiom); concealing malice
苞藏祸心 bāo cáng huò xīn  


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