Memory phrase for the character: 薄


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Meaning

meager, slight, weak, belittle, to look down on

Pronunciation

bó, báo, bò

Explanation

Top: plant 艹, below: extensive 溥 (The water 氵 announces 尃 that it is extensively widespread) Here cf. shoulder 膊: The body part 月/肉, that somehow looks like the upper body 甫 with the 'skillful hand' 寸 is the shoulder.

Mnemonic


 
If you only get plants and water as provisions, the schoulders will be: meager and weak.

Radicals

grass, plantGrass or a rapid growing plant in general. It shows two plants growing through the ground, and is a simple variation of 艸.
to announce. just now 甫 and with a skillful hand 寸. The mnemonics use it as: shoulders 膊.
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

薄膜 bó mó  membrane; film
薄暮 bó mù  dusk; twilight
薄暮 bó mù  

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