Memory phrase for the Kanji: 蛊


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Meaning

to drive to insanity, to bewitch, intestinal parasite

Pronunciation

Explanation

Top: insect 虫, below: bowl/plate 皿

Mnemonic


 
The insects in my bowl drive me: to insanity. (When there were insects in my bowl/food, the worms drive me to insanity.)

Radicals

insectThe body 口 and the sting ム of an insect. Also this radical 昆 is understood as insect.
bowl
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 Vocabulary

蛊祝 gǔ zhù  to curse sb; to place a jinx
蛊惑 gǔ huò  to poison; to bewitch; to put a spell on sb; to harm by witchcraft
病民蛊国 bìng mín gǔ guó  to damage the people and harm the country (idiom)
病民蛊国 bìng mín gǔ guó  


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