Memory phrase for the character: 蚀

蚀



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Meaning

erosion, to nibble, to corrode, eclipse

Pronunciation

 shí

Explanation

 Left: food 饣/食 (Below the cover is good 良 food.), right: insect 虫

Mnemonic
 
The eating/food by an insect is "eating (nibbling) into it", like: corrosion.

Radicals

食 eat, foodA person 人 needs something good 良 to eat, whereby the two bottom lines can perhaps also be seen as chopsticks.
虫 insectThe body 口 and the sting ム of an insect. Also this radical 昆 is understood as insect.
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 Vocabulary

侵蚀 qīn shí  to erode; to corrode
腐蚀 fǔ shí  corrosion; to corrode (degrade chemically); to rot; corruption
腐蚀 fǔ shí  

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