Memory phrase for the character: 蝴

蝴

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Meaning

butterfly

Pronunciation

 hú

Explanation

 Left: insect 虫, right: beard, non-Han people 胡 (Like old 古 flesh 月 are the beards of the non-Han people.)

Mnemonic
 
The insect that develops from an old 古 body 月 (=caterpillar & cocoon), is the butterfly.

Radicals

虫 insectThe body 口 and the sting ム of an insect. Also this radical 昆 is understood as insect.
胡 beard, non-Han people
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 Vocabulary

蝴蝶 hú dié  butterfly
鸳鸯蝴蝶派 yuān yang hú dié pài  Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds) literary school around 1900, criticized as populist and romantic by socialist realists
鸳鸯蝴蝶 yuān yang hú dié  Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds); derogatory reference to populist and romantic writing around 1900
鸳鸯蝴蝶 yuān yang hú dié  

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