Memory phrase for the character: 额


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Meaning forehead, share, portion, amount

Pronunciation

é

Explanation

Left: guest (Under the roof is everybody our guest.) [everybody = is sitting cross-legged on a cushion ], right: page, leaf 页/ (head with shoulders and eyebrows )

Mnemonic


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

Radicals

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