Memory phrase for the character: 擂

擂

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Meaning

beat, hit, to grind, to beat (a drum)

Pronunciation

léi, lèi, lēi

Explanation

 Left: hand 扌, right: thunder 雷 (Rain 雨 falls on the fields 田 amidst thunder.)

Mnemonic
 
A hand like a thunder, when: beating.

Radicals

扌 handSimplification of this hand 手
雷 thunder
雨 rainView out of a window 冂 into the rain =,=. The upper line is a rain cloud.
田 field




 Vocabulary

自吹自擂 zì chuī zì léi  to blow one's own trumpet (idiom)
擂鼓鸣金 léi gǔ míng jīn  to beat the drum and sound the gong (idiom); fig. to order an advance or retreat; to egg people on or to call them back
大吹大擂 dà chuī dà léi  make an exhibition of oneself; ostentation
大吹大擂 dà chuī dà léi  

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