Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 垣

垣

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Meaning

 wall, city wall

Pronunciation

 yuán

Explanation

 Left: earth 土, right: to extend wholly 亘 (from sunrise to sunset 亘 [=the sun 日 above 旦 and below the horizon 一])

Mnemonic

The earth must (be piled) from sunrise to sunset to get: a wall. (Or: The earth must extend wholly [without flaws] as: city wall)

Radicals

土 earth, ground
亘 extending all the way(from sunrise 旦 (sun above horizon) to sunset (= sun below horizon))
旦 sun rise(sun over the horizon)
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Vocabulary

逾垣 yú yuán to run away; to escape
颓垣断壁 tuí yuán duàn bì crumbling fences and dilapidated walls (idiom)

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