Memory phrase for the character: 萧

萧

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Meaning miserable, desolate, dreary, Chinese mugwort

Pronunciation

xiāo

Explanation

Top: plant 艹, bottom: respectful 肃 (here: hand with spoon 丨 stirring a "soup")

Mnemonic
 
The plant for making a "soup", is the medicine mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris), used when you feel miserable.

Radicals

艹 grass, plant
隶 stirring soupThe official meaning is "slave" but better usable as a hand stirring water (=soup)
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 Vocabulary

萧条 xiāo tiáo  bleak; desolate; (economic) depression or slump
萧伯纳 Xiāo bó nà  George Bernard Shaw
萧红 Xiāo Hóng  Xiao Hong (1911-1942), prominent woman writer, originally from Heilongjiang
萧红 Xiāo Hóng  

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