Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 咎
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咎 |
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Meaning |
to blame, fault, to punish, calamity, misfortune |
Pronunciation |
jiù |
Explanation |
Top: outside, foreign 外 (If you are in the evening 夕 [alone] at a fork 卜 in the road, you are: an outsider), bottom: mouth 口 |
Mnemonic
| An outsider's mouth blames you. |
Radicals
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夕
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evening | (This radical is similar to moon: 月, but at the evening the moon is not complete and thus only one inner line.) |
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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.) |
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口
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mouth, opening | (This is a small square. If it is bigger: 囗, it is an enclosure.) |
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
| 归咎 |
guī jiù |
blame; declare to be at fault | | 自取其咎 |
zì qǔ qí jiù |
to have only oneself to blame (idiom); to bring trouble through one's own actions | | 既往不咎 |
jì wǎng bù jiù |
to forget and not bear recriminations (idiom); to let bygones be bygones; There is no point in crying over spilt milk. |
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