Memory phrase for the character: 袍

袍

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Meaning gown (lined), robe

Pronunciation

páo

Explanation

Left: cloth 衤/衣, right: enwrap 包 (The wrap 勹 itself 己 makes it to be wrapped.)

Mnemonic
 
The cloth for being "enwrapped", is a gown.

Radicals

衣 clothes
包 package, to cover, to wrapActually with a "snake" 巳, but simplified understood as a variation of self 己.
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 Vocabulary

长袍 cháng páo  gown
旗袍 qí páo  Chinese-style dress; cheongsam
龙袍 lóng páo  dragon robe; emperor's court dress
蟒袍 mǎng páo  official robe worn by ministers during the Ming
蟒袍 mǎng páo  

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