Memory phrase for the character: 葫

葫

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Meaning bottle-gourd, calabash, allium scorodoprasum

Pronunciation

hú

Explanation

Top: plant 艹, below: beard, non-Han-person 胡 (Like old 古 flesh 月/肉 are the beards of the non-Han people.)

Mnemonic
 
(The skin can be used as a drinking-vessel.) The plant where the 'old body' is used: The bottle-gourd.

Radicals

艹 grass, plant
胡 beard, non-Han people
古 ancient, old, formerOriginally derived from the picture of a skull, hence "old". But the idea of a burial mound is also helpful.
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 Vocabulary

葫芦 hú lu  calabash or bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria); hoist; generic term for block and tackle (or parts thereof); muddled
闷葫芦 mèn hú lu  lit. closed gourd; fig. enigma; complete mystery; taciturn person
电动葫芦 diàn dòng hú lu  electric chain pulley block
电动葫芦 diàn dòng hú lu  

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