Memory phrase for the character: 禄

禄

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Meaning

official salary, good fortune

Pronunciation

lù

Explanation

Left: to show 礻(=示, image of an altar, where things are shown), right: diary, record 录 ("squeeze out" = part of green 绿, where fibers 糸 are squeezed by hand 彐 a green 绿 liquid 水 emerges.)

Mnemonic

From an altar it can be "squeezed out" an: official salary.

Radicals

示	to show, altar	Shows a simple altar 丁 with a sacrifice 一 and blood 八 is trickling down. Thus the meanings: to show and altar.
录	squeeze out	The hanzi 录 has the meaning: to keep a record/to transcribe, but is used as a radical with the meaning “to squeeze out”, as this shows a hand 彐 squeezing out a liquid 水.

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Vocabulary

骸骨	hái gǔ
高官厚禄	gāo guān hòu lù	high post and generous salary (idiom); promotion to a high official position
俸禄	fèng lù	official's salary (in feudal times)
俸禄	fèng lù

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