Memory phrase for the character: 卸

卸

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Meaning

to unload, unhitch, remove or strip, get rid of

Pronunciation

xiè

Explanation

 Left: noon 午, to stop 止, right: bowing person卩

Mnemonic
 
At noon (during that heat) we can stop and as we are bent, we can unload.

Radicals

午 noon“Noon” can be understood as a pestle 午 that is used in a mortar 凵. (compare: ceramic 缶 [fǒu]) As the pestle 午 is vertical in the mortar, the meaning of “noon” arises because the sun is then also vertical.
卩 bent personShows a person 人 bowing down deeply. (Further radicals with "person" are: sitting 匕, sitting cross-legged 夂, lying , kneeling ⺈, skilled 才, bending マ,卩, slumped 㔾 or husband 夫)




 Vocabulary

装卸 zhuāng xiè  to load or unload; to transfer; to assemble and disassemble
拆卸 chāi xiè  to unload; to dismantle
 

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