Memory phrase for the character: 挫

挫

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Meaning

obstructed, to fail, oppress / repress, defeat, frustration

Pronunciation

cuò

Explanation

 Left: hand 扌, right: to sit 坐 (Two persons 人 sit on the earth 土) [cf. seat 座]

Mnemonic
 
The hand on which he sat, became obstructed and this made him fail.

Radicals

扌 handSimplification of this hand 手
坐 to sitto take (a seat/a bus)




 Vocabulary

挫折 cuò zhé  setback; reverse; check; defeat; frustration; disappointment; to frustrate; to discourage; to set sb back; to blunt; to subdue
挫败 cuò bài  to thwart; to foil (sb's plans); to defeat
顿挫 dùn cuò  a transition (stop and change) in spoken sound, music or in brush strokes; a cadence; punctuated by a transition; with syncopated cadence (brush stroke in painting)
顿挫 dùn cuò  

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