Memory phrase for the character: 颌


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Meaning jaw (= maxilla and mandible)

Pronunciation

Explanation

Left: to fit (The lid on the pot ), right: page, head 页 (=; head with shoulders and eyebrows )

Mnemonic


 
What is fitting at the head is the jaw (with its upper and lower jaw)

Radicals

fit
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.
jaw, palate
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 Vocabulary

下颌 xià hé  lower jaw; mandible
上颌 shàng hé  maxilla (upper jaw)
无颌 wú hé  jawless (primitive fish)
无颌 wú hé  


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