Memory phrase for the Kanji: 颐


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Meaning

cheek, lower cheek, chin, jaw, to nourish

Pronunciation

Explanation

Left: minister, offical (here: image of left cheek with mouth ロ), right: page, head 页/ (head with shoulders and eyebrows )

Mnemonic

The cheek at the head stands for: cheek or to nourish.

Radicals

minister
head, leaderPicture of an eye with emphasized eye-brows to express the special: the head or the chief. (When used as a radical often without eye-brows meaning forehead). It is always at the right side of a character.
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Vocabulary

 颐和园  yí hé yuán  Summer Palace in Beijing
 颐养天年  yí yǎng tiān nián  to care for oneself for one's allotted life span (idiom); to retire
 颐养  yí yǎng  to look after one's health; to keep fit
 颐养  yí yǎng  


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