Memory phrase for the character: 颅


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Meaning skull

Pronunciation

Explanation

Left: Luxembourg (forking of the way, buttocks ), right: page, leaf, forehead 页/ (head with shoulders and eyebrows )

Mnemonic


 
If there is only one hair on the head , this head is a skull.

Radicals

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