Memory phrase for the character: 逮

逮

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Meaning

arrest, catch, seize, until

Pronunciation

dǎi, dài

Explanation

 Left: movement 辶, right: servant 隶 (Hand , and an animal [e.g. cat] with a tail 丨 and four extremities/limbs spreading away from the body)

Mnemonic
 
The hand seizes the tail of that animal in one movement, when it has caught it. (and the animal will hiss 啸)

Radicals

辶 movementIn some cases this radical 廴 is used, but the mnemonics are the same.
隶 stirring soupThe official meaning is "slave" but better usable as a hand stirring water (=soup)




 Vocabulary

逮捕 dài bǔ  to arrest; to apprehend; an arrest
 

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