Memory phrase for the character: 喷
喷
Meaning
to spout, to spray, to spurt, to puff Pronunciation
pēn, pèn
pen1, pen4
Explanation Left: mouth 口, right: 贲 (grasses/thirty 卉, money 贝)
Mnemonic
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The mouth spouts 30x money. Radicals
口
mouth, opening This is a small square. If it is bigger: 囗, it is an enclosure.
卉
plants, grasses
廾
two hands Twice this hand 屮 (with the fingers 山 towards the top) side by side, which was simplified and combined.
贝
shell, money This is simplified from 貝, which showed a cowries-shell 目 with two feelers/antennas 八 that was used as money.
Vocabulary
喷射 pēn shè
to spurt; to spray; to jet; spurt; spray; jet
3426
喷嘴 pēn zuǐ
nozzle; extrusion nozzle
3791
喷雾 pēn wù
mist spray; atomizing
4701
喷洒 pēn sǎ
to spray; to sprinkle
5976
涡轮喷气发动机
wō lún pēn qì fā dòng jī
turbojet
7061
喷嚏 pēn tì
sneeze
9722
打嚏喷 dǎ tì pen
to sneeze
9724
打嚏喷 dǎ tì pen
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