Memory phrase for the character: 弥

弥

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Meaning

to fill, overflowing, brimming, completely

Pronunciation

mí

Explanation

 Left: bow 弓, right: thus/therefore 尔 (A lying person appears small 小, that therefore thus.) [lying person as variant of: 人]

Mnemonic
 
Take your bow, lie down to become small and (due to hunting success your stomach) will fill.

Radicals

弓 bow
尔 thus, therefore
person lying downThis radical can be seen as a person 人 who has the right leg horizontal 一. He is thus lying. (Further radicals with "person" are: sitting 匕, sitting cross-legged 夂, kneeling ⺈, skilled 才, bending マ,卩, slumped 㔾 or husband 夫)




 Vocabulary

弥漫 mí màn  to pervade; to fill the air; diffuse; everywhere present; about to inundate (water); permeated by (smoke); filled with (dust); to saturate (the air with fog, smoke etc)
弥补 mí bǔ  to complement; to make up for a deficiency
弥勒 Mí lè  Mile county in Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture, Yunnan; Maitreya, the future Bodhisattva, to come after Shakyamuni Buddha
欲盖弥彰 yù gài mí zhāng  trying to hide it makes it more conspicuous (idiom); A cover up only makes matters worse.
阿耳忒弥斯 Ā ěr tè mí sī  Artemis (Greek goddess of the moon)
 

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