Memory phrase for the Kanji: 颅

颅

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Meaning

skull

Pronunciation

 lú

Explanation

 Left: Luxembourg 卢 (forking of the way卜, buttocks 尸), right: page, leaf, forehead 页/頁 (head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一)

Mnemonic
 
If there is only one hair 卜 on the head 尸, this head 頁 is a skull.

Radicals

卜 oracle, mysticismThis radical is considered to be a simplification of: fortune telling 占 (crack 卜 in the shell 口 of a turtle from which the fortune was told.). Sometimes it is read as a forking of a road.
尸 buttocks in side viewThis radical has the meaning: corpse 尸. But because of its use in tail 尾 or urine 尿 or flatulence 屁, it is generally considered to mean 'buttocks'.
頁 head, leaderPicture of an eye 目 with emphasized eye-brows 首 to express the special: the head or the chief. (When used as a radical often without eye-brows 頁 meaning forehead). It is always at the right side of a character.
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 Vocabulary

头颅 tóu lú  head; skull
颅骨 dú lóu  skull (of a dead body)
颅测量 lú cè liáng  Craniometry
颅测量 lú cè liáng  

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