Memory phrase for the character: 蓬

蓬

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Meaning disheveled, unkempt, overgrown, vigorous, fleabane

Pronunciation

péng

Explanation

Top: grass/plant 艹, bottom: to encounter 逢 (The movements of a bee 蜂 [=insect of peak of growing plant] (from blossom to blossom) mean: to encounter.)

Mnemonic

The plant which you often encounter (because it is overgrown /disheveled) is: the fleabane.

Radicals

艹	grass, plant
逢	encounter	to meet by chance, to come across
夆	pointed, sharp	sitting cross-legged 夂 on top of growing plant 丰, like at 'bee' 蜂

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Vocabulary

蓬勃	péng bó	vigorous; flourishing; full of vitality
蓬茸	péng róng	lush; luxuriant (of grass or hair); soft lush hair
蓬户瓮牖	péng hù wèng yǒu	thatched house, broken urn windows (idiom); poor person's house; humble home
蓬户瓮牖	péng hù wèng yǒu

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