Memory phrase for the character: 髅

髅

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Meaning

skull

Pronunciation

lóu

Explanation

 Left: skeleton 骨 (image of a vertebra, cover 冖, body/flesh 月), right: collect 娄 (Rice grains 米 are by women 女 been: collected.)

Mnemonic
 
(As a souvenir?) From the skeleton this is collected: The skull.

Radicals

骨 bone
娄 to collectThis radical is used with the meaning "to collect", because helpful mnemonics become possible, as for example with " to collect 搂", which is ethymological not correct.




 Vocabulary

骷髅 kū lóu  human skeleton; human skull
骷髅 kū lóu  

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