Memory phrase for the character: 蹙

蹙

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Meaning

to knit (one's brows), to hesitate, distressed

Pronunciation

cù

Explanation

 Top: relatives, grief 戚 (When halberds 戈 are raging in the pepper fields 尗 the relatives are grieving.), bottom: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止)

Mnemonic
 
When the relatives are in grief because you go (=足), they: knit (their brows).

Radicals

足 foot




 Vocabulary

频眉蹙额 pín méi cù é  worried and unhappy (idiom)
蹙眉 cù méi  to frown
穷蹙 qióng cù  hard-up; in dire straits; desperate
穷蹙 qióng cù  

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