Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 卧
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卧 |
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Hanzi-Trainer
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Meaning |
to lie (for sleeping), lie down |
Pronunciation |
wò |
Explanation |
Left: minister, official 臣 (= eye wide open), right: divine 卜 (here: a rotated cover 亠) |
Mnemonic
| For the staring eyes you need a (rotated) cover if you want to lie down to sleep. |
Radicals
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臣
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minister | |
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卜
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oracle, mysticism | (This radical is considered to be a simplification of: fortune telling 占 (crack 卜 in the shell 口 of a turtle from which the fortune was told.). Sometimes it is read as a forking of a road.) |
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
| 卧榻 |
wò tà |
a couch; a narrow bed | | 食荼卧棘 |
shí tú wò jí |
to eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns (idiom); to share the hard life of the common people | | 卧薪尝胆 |
wò xīn cháng dǎn |
lit. to lie on firewood and taste gall (idiom); fig. suffering patiently, but firmly resolved on revenge | | 卧铺 |
wò pù |
a bed (on a train); a couchette | | 卧室 |
wò shì |
bedroom | | 横躺竖卧 |
héng tǎng shù wò |
to lie down all over the place; exhausted and in disarray | | 仰卧 |
yǎng wò |
to lie supine | | 蜷卧 |
quán wò |
to curl up; to lie curled up |
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