Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 悼

悼

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Meaning

 mourn, lament

Pronunciation

 dào

Explanation

 Left: feeling 忄, right: excellent 卓 ([Before the day happens:] Fortune telling 卜/占 early at the morning 早 is excellent)

Mnemonic

Can feelings be excellent, when you are mourning?

Radicals

忄 feelings
卓 outstanding, excellent(Fortune telling 占 early at the morning 早 is excellent.)
卜 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.)
早 early, morning
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Vocabulary

哀悼 āi dào to grieve over sb's death; to lament sb's death; mourning
追悼 zhuī dào mourning; memorial (service etc)
悼念 dào niàn to grieve

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