Memory phrase for the character: 蹊

蹊

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Meaning

footpath, narrow trail

Pronunciation

xī

Explanation

 Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: What? WHERE? 奚 (The down-reaching hand 爫 wants to fish with the thread 糸 something big 大, but: What? Where?)

Mnemonic
 
Where the feet that 'reach down' transform the fibers (=threads of the grasses) into something big (= flattened), a path is created.

Radicals

足 foot




 Vocabulary

鼠蹊 shǔ xī  groin
蹊跷 qī qiāo  odd; queer; strange; fishy
独辟蹊径 dú pì xī jìng  to blaze a new trail (idiom); to display originality
独辟蹊径 dú pì xī jìng  

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