Memory phrase for the character: 鳖

鳖

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Meaning freshwater soft-shelled turtle

Pronunciation

biē

Explanation

Top: shabby, (humble) I 敝 (The cloth 巾 is hit/smashed 攵 into four pieces and then as shabby as I am.), bottom: fish 鱼/魚 (... with mouth ⺈, body 田 and tail fin 灬)

Mnemonic
 
This shabby "fish" is a: turtle.

Radicals

敝 shabby, poor(modest) I, myself
魚 fish
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 Vocabulary

鳖裙 biē qún  calipash
鳖甲 biē jiǎ  turtle shell
瓮中捉鳖 wèng zhōng zhuō biē  to catch a turtle in a jar (idiom); to set oneself an easy target; a turkey shoot
瓮中捉鳖 wèng zhōng zhuō biē  

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