Memory phrase for the character: 颊


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Meaning cheeks

Pronunciation

jiá

Explanation

Left: to squeeze (A husband between persons (=) is squeezed.), right: page, head 页/ (= head with shoulders and eyebrows )

Mnemonic


 
They are squeezing the head: the cheeks.

Radicals

squeeze in
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

脸颊 liǎn jiá  cheek
颊窝 jiá wō  dimple; heat-sensing facial pit of a snake
面颊 miàn jiá  cheek
腮颊 sāi jiá  cheek; jaw
腮颊 sāi jiá  


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