Memory phrase for the character: 饰

饰

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Meaning decoration, ornament, adorn, conceal

Pronunciation

shì

Explanation

Left: food 饣/食, right: lying person , cloth 巾

Mnemonic
 
If the food is laid on a cloth, it is: a decoration.

Radicals

食 eat, food
lying personThis radical can be seen as a person 人 who has the right leg horizontal 一. He is thus lying. (Further radicals with "person" are: sitting 匕, sitting cross-legged 夂, kneeling ⺈, skilled 才, bending マ,卩, slumped 㔾 or husband 夫)
巾 cloth, turban
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 Vocabulary

装饰 zhuāng shì  to decorate; decoration; decorative; ornamental
掩饰 yǎn shì  to conceal a fault; to gloss over
粉饰 fěn shì  to paint; to whitewash; to decorate; plaster; fig. to gloss over; to cover up
粉饰 fěn shì  

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