Memory phrase for the character: 腿

腿

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Meaning leg, lower extremities

Pronunciation

tuǐ

Explanation

Left: body part 月/肉, right: retreat 退 (The movement 辶 is not good 艮 if it is a retreat.)

Mnemonic
 
The part of the body that can be retreated is the leg.

Radicals

肉 meatand body parts
退 retreat
辶 movementIn some cases this radical 廴 is used, but the mnemonics are the same.
艮 not goodThis 良 is the character for "good", but since the accent is missing it is understood as "not good".
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 Vocabulary

大腿 dà tuǐ  thigh
火腿 huǒ tuǐ  ham
小腿 xiǎo tuǐ  calf (of the leg)
鬼扯腿 guǐ chě tuǐ  lit. ghost pulls your leg; involuntary tug of muscles; fig. very unlucky; fig. argumentative; fig. can't help doing it
裤腿 kù tuǐ  trouser leg
绑腿 bǎng tuǐ  leg wrappings; puttee
瘸腿 qué tuǐ  crippled; lame; a cripple; a lame person
瘸腿 qué tuǐ  

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