Memory phrase for the character: 输

输

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Meaning to transport, to donate, to lose, to enter (a password)

Pronunciation

shū

Explanation

Left: vehicle 车/車 (= cart from above with axle丨, load-area 日 and two wheels 二), right: to assent, approve 俞 (When the arrowhead gets into the body 月/肉 to cut刂, I am assenting. [cf. arrow 箭])

Mnemonic
 
The vehicle assents, that it shall transport.

Radicals

车 vehicleSimplified from 車. Shows a hand-cart from top: axle 丨, loading area 日, two wheels 二. This sign 车 is similar to the simplified east 东 =東.
俞 arrow headThis radical gets its meaning by the similarity to the character for arrow: 箭 (jiàn), which has a similar body under the bamboo 竹. Due to the pointed top this radical is understood as the arrow's head 人 that goes into the flesh 月/肉 and cuts刂.
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 Vocabulary

输出 shū chū  to export; to output
运输 yùn shū  transport; haulage; transit
输送 shū sòng  to transport; to convey
输尿管 shū niào guǎn  ureter
慷慨输将 kāng kǎi shū jiāng  to donate generously (idiom)
慷慨输将 kāng kǎi shū jiāng  

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