Memory phrase for the character: 蜒

蜒

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Meaning

slug, to wriggle/snaking

Pronunciation

 yán

Explanation

 Left: insect 虫, right: spread, extend 延 (This movement 廴 is correct 正 for: spreading or extending)

Mnemonic
 
The insect, that has spread out is: the slug.

Radicals

虫 insectThe body 口 and the sting ム of an insect. Also this radical 昆 is understood as insect.
延 to spread
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 Vocabulary

蜿蜒 wān yán  to wriggle; snaking; winding; to zigzag; to meander
蜗蜒 wō yán  snail
蜒蚰 yán yóu  a slug (regional)
蜒蚰 yán yóu  

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