Memory phrase for the character: 颉




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Meaning

fly upward (bird), soar, contest

Pronunciation

xié

Explanation

Left: happy 吉 (simplification of 喜, where the scholar 士 has beans 豆 in the mouth 口 and is happy.), right: page, head 页 (=頁; head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一)

Mnemonic


 
The happiness (above) the heads is: to fly upwards.

Radicals

happinessThis radical is a simplification of 喜, which also means “happiness”. There, a scholar 士 has a mouthful of beans 豆 and is happy.
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

仓颉 Cāng Jié  Cang Jie, legendary scribe of the Yellow Emperor and creator of Chinese writing; Cangjie input method (computing)
仓颉 Cāng Jié  


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