Memory phrase for the Kanji: 颐
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颐 |
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Meaning
| cheek, lower cheek, chin, jaw, to nourish
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Pronunciation |
yí |
Explanation |
Left: minister, offical 臣 (here: image of left cheek 匚 with mouth ロ), right: page, head 页/頁 (head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) |
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The cheek at the head stands for: cheek or to nourish.
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Radicals
臣
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minister | |
頁
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head, leader | Picture of an eye 目 with emphasized eye-brows 首 to express the special: the head or the chief. (When used as a radical often without eye-brows 頁 meaning forehead). It is always at the right side of a character. |
Tip: Go to the radicals that are contained in this character and learn all the characters with this radical systematically!
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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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