Memory phrase for the character: 谀

谀

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Meaning to flatter

Pronunciation

yú

Explanation

Left: word 讠(=言), right: 臾 (mortar 臼 [= two hands E, 彐] and person 人)

Mnemonic
 
Words that encompass the person like a mortar (=made of two hands) want to: flatter.

Radicals

讠 wordtraditionally 言, which shows sound waves out of a mouth
臼 mortar
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 Vocabulary

面谀 miàn yú  to praise sb to his face
阿谀奉承 ē yú fèng chéng  flattering and fawning (idiom); sweet-talking
阿谀 ē yú  to flatter; to toady
阿谀 ē yú  

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