Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 补
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补 |
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Meaning |
to repair, to patch, to mend, supplement |
Pronunciation |
bǔ |
Explanation |
Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: fortune telling 卜 (here: image of a needle with a thread (cf. 针) |
Mnemonic
| For the clothes, take a needle to repair. |
Radicals
衣
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clothes | |
卜
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oracle, mysticism | (This radical is considered to be a simplification of: fortune telling 占 (crack 卜 in the shell 口 of a turtle from which the fortune was told.). Sometimes it is read as a forking of a road.) |
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Vocabulary
补阙拾遗 |
bǔ quē shí yí |
to compensate for shortage and leakage | 补泻 |
bǔ xiè |
reinforcing and reducing methods (in acupuncture) | 弥补 |
mí bǔ |
to complement; to make up for a deficiency | 补贴 |
bǔ tiē |
to subsidize; subsidy; allowance | 补偿 |
bǔ cháng |
to compensate; to make up | 补充 |
bǔ chōng |
to replenish; to supplement; to complement; additional; supplementary | 补助 |
bǔ zhù |
(financial) subsidy; allowance |
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