Memory phrase for the character: 蛾

蛾

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Meaning moth

Pronunciation

é

Explanation

Left: insect 虫, right: I, me 我 (In my hand 手 a halberd 戈 and I am myself.)

Mnemonic
 
The insect that flutters around wildly (= has an ego of its own) is the moth.

Radicals

虫 insectAlso this radical 昆 is understood as: insect.
我 I, me, my
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 Vocabulary

蛾眉皓齿 é méi hào chǐ  beautiful eyebrow and white teeth (idiom); lovely young woman
蚕蛾 cán é  Chinese silkworm moth (Bombyx mori)
飞蛾扑火 fēi é pū huǒ  the moth flies into the flame; fatal attraction
飞蛾投火 fēi é tóu huǒ  lit. like a moth flying into the fire (idiom); fig. to choose a path to certain destruction
飞蛾投火 fēi é tóu huǒ  

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