Memory phrase for the character: 额


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Meaning

forehead, share, portion, amount

Pronunciation

é

Explanation

Left: guest 客 (Under the roof 宀 is everybody 各 our guest.) [everybody 各 = is sitting cross-legged 夂 on a cushion 口], right: page, leaf 页/頁 (head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一)

Mnemonic


 
The guests get by head (or forehead) each their share.

Radicals

guestUnder the roof everybody is our guest.
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.
roof
each, everybodyWatch for the very similar meaning of the radical every 每.
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 Vocabulary

匾额 biǎn é  a horizontal inscribed board
定额 dìng é  fixed amount; quota
超额 chāo é  above quota
总额 zǒng é  total (amount or value)
频眉蹙额 pín méi cù é  worried and unhappy (idiom)
频眉蹙额 pín méi cù é  


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