Memory phrase for the character: 觉
觉
Meaning
a sleep, a nap, feel, find that, awake, aware Pronunciation jiào, jué Explanation From top: light rays 冖 , to see 见 /見 (= an eye 目 on legs 儿 )
Mnemonic
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When the sunshine falls through the cover on your seeing eyes you awake: from sleep. Radicals
3 beams
冖
cover This very similar radical 宀 is understood as a roof.
见
to see This radical is simplified from 見, that is understood as "an eye 目 on legs 儿 ", expressing a "looking around".
儿
legs Simplified from 兒 with the meaning 'son'. In the explanations used as 'two legs'.
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Vocabulary
觉得 jué de
to think; to feel
407
自觉 zì jué
conscious; aware; on one's own initiative; conscientious
445
知觉 zhī jué
perception; consciousness
1172
感觉 gǎn jué
to feel; to become aware of; feeling; sense; perception
2017
觉悟 jué wù
consciousness; awareness; Buddhist enlightenment
2453
睡觉 shuì jiào
to go to bed; to sleep
3736
觉醒 jué xǐng
to awaken; to come to realize; awakened to the truth; the truth dawns upon one; scales fall from the eyes; to become aware
3877
嗅觉 xiù jué
sense of smell
6936
嗅觉 xiù jué
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, cover: 冖, to see 见/見 (= an eye 目 on legs 儿)
