Memory phrase for the character: 胳

胳

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Meaning

armpit

Pronunciation

 gē

Explanation

 Left: body part 月/肉, right: everybody 各 (Sitting cross-legged 夂 on a cushion 口 does everybody.)

Mnemonic
 
A body's part that everyone has, or that is bent like sitting cross-legged 夂 with an opening 口 is the armpit.

Radicals

肉 body partThis radical is on the left in compound words and is simplified as "月", which then looks like “moon, month 月”, but still has the meaning “body part”.
各 each, everybodyWatch for the very similar meaning of the radical every 每.
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 Vocabulary

胳膊 gē bo  arm
胳臂 gē bei  arm
胳臂肘儿 gē bei zhǒur  elbow
胳膊肘朝外拐 gē bo zhǒu cháo wài guǎi  the elbow turns the wrong way; to favor an outsider instead of someone on one's own side (idiom)
胳膊肘朝外拐 gē bo zhǒu cháo wài guǎi  

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