Memory phrase for the character: 噬

噬

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Meaning

to bite, to devour

Pronunciation

shì

Explanation

 Left: mouth 口, right: 筮 (bamboo 竹, witch 巫 [She's doing the work 工 of two persons 从], here: variant of: squeeze in 夹)

Mnemonic
 
(If its end is slit, you can get pinched in it.) Like a mouth, the bamboo can clamp/squeeze, thus: bite.

Radicals

口 mouth, openingThis is a small square. If it is bigger: 囗, it is an enclosure.
竹 bamboo
夹 squeeze in




 Vocabulary

噬菌体 shì jūn tǐ  bacteriophage; phage; virus that infects bacteria
吞噬 tūn shì  to swallow; to engulf; to gobble up
巨噬细胞 jù shì xì bāo  macrophage
巨噬细胞 jù shì xì bāo  

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