Memory phrase for the character: 膊


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Meaning

shoulder, upper arm

Pronunciation

Explanation

Left: body part 月/肉, right: to announce 尃 (just now 甫 with skillful hand 寸) [甫 = Upper body 甫 with shoulders 一 the chest 月 and spine 丨]

Mnemonic


 
The body part, that looks like the upper body 甫 and which supports the 'skillful hand' 寸, is the shoulder.

Radicals

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”.
to announce. just now 甫 and with a skillful hand 寸. The mnemonics use it as: shoulders 膊.
just, just nowImage of the upper body 甫 with shoulders 一 and chest 月 with spine 丨.
skillful handImage of a hand 一 forearm 丨 and pulse 丶. As a body part this is the forearm 肘. It was originally also the distance of one inch (Length: 1 ts'wun = 3.72 cm) from the hand's palm to the pulse. This also stood for a small amount. In the mnemonic, it is used as "skillful hand".




 Vocabulary

胳膊 gē bo  arm
赤膊 chì bó  bare to the waist
袒膊 tǎn bó  to strip to the waist; to be bare to the waist
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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