Memory phrase for the character: 颓


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Meaning

to crumble, to collapse, to decline, decadent, dejected

Pronunciation

tuí

Explanation

Left: bald, blunt 秃 (The rice plants 禾 are placed on the table 几 (for peeling / cleaning) until they are bald.), right: page, leaf, head 页/頁 (head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一)

Mnemonic


 
The bald head has crumbled.

Radicals

grainGrain plant 木 with a spike ノ of grain
small tableA similar radical is ordinary: 凡, which shows this table with a scratch. Sometimes this radical is seen as a sail. Also this radical is understood as a table.
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

颓萎 tuí wěi  listless; dispirited
颓垣断壁 tuí yuán duàn bì  crumbling fences and dilapidated walls (idiom)
颓废 tuí fèi  decadent; dispirited; depressed; dejected
颓风 tuí fēng  degenerate custom; decadent ways
颓靡 tuí mí  devastated
颓靡 tuí mí  


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