Memory phrase for the character: 遏

遏

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Meaning to suppress, to stop, check

Pronunciation

è

Explanation

Left: movement 辶, right: interrogation 曷 (=The mouth with tongue 日 enwraps 勹 the person 人 in the corner at the interrogation.)

Mnemonic
 
(Torture is meant) At an interrogation you use 'movements' to: suppress.

Radicals

辶 movementIn some cases this radical 廴 is used, but the mnemonics are the same.
曷 interrogationalso as an interrogative particle: why, how, when
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 Vocabulary

遏制 è zhì  to check; to contain; to hold back; to keep within limits; to constrain; to restrain
阻遏 zǔ è  to impede; to hold sb back
遏止 è zhǐ  to hold back; to check (i.e. to stop sb's advance); to resist; esp. with negative, irresistible, unstoppable etc
遏止 è zhǐ  

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