Memory phrase for the Kanji: 褂


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Meaning coat, jacket, gown, ensheath

Pronunciation

guà

Explanation

Left: clothes 衤/, right: trigram (twice earth as fortune telling in trigram)

Mnemonic


 
Clothes in fortune telling can ensheath as a coat.

Radicals

clothes
piled earthTwo times earth on top of each other stands for piled-up earth. (Standing alone it has the meaning: jade sceptre)
oracle, mysticismThis radical is considered to be a simplification of: fortune telling (crack in the shell of a turtle from which the fortune was told.). Sometimes it is read as a forking of a road.
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 Vocabulary

 马褂  mǎ guà  buttoned mandarin jacket of the Qing dynasty
 马褂  mǎ guà  


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