Memory phrase for the character: 裂

裂

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Meaning to tear, split, crack, to break open, to rend

Pronunciation

liè

Explanation

Top: row 列 (wicked 歹 [= bar bone] is exposed with a knife刂 in a row [i.e. backbone]), bottom: clothes 衣

Mnemonic
 
In a row (=direction of looming) clothes are teared.

Radicals

列 row, to arrange
衣 clothes
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 Vocabulary

分裂 fēn liè  to split up; to divide; to break up; fission; schism
断裂 duàn liè  fracture; rupture
破裂 pò liè  to rupture; to fracture; to break down; (linguistics) plosion
裂纹 liè wén  crack; flaw
裂缝 liè fèng  crack; crevice
崩裂 bēng liè  to rupture; to burst open; to break up
撕裂 sī liè  to rip apart; to tear; laceration; rent
鳃裂 sāi liè  gill slit (in fish)
鳃裂 sāi liè  

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