Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 斯
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斯 |
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Meaning |
this, here, Slovakia |
Pronunciation |
sī |
Explanation |
Left: 其 Image of a grain shovel/scoop (tool for threshing), right: axe 斤 |
Mnemonic
| A grain scoop threshes like an axe, like: THIS! |
Radicals
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斯
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this | |
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其
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grain shovel/scoop | (With a grain scoop 其 (tool for threshing), grain was rhythmically [thus used in period 期] thrown up to shead the grain from the husk. (cf. to winnow 簸)) |
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斤
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axe | |
Tip: Go to the radicals that are contained in this character and learn all the characters with this radical systematically!
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Vocabulary
| 法西斯 |
fǎ xī sī |
fascist (loanword) | | 道琼斯指数 |
Dào Qióng sī zhǐ shù |
Dow Jones industrial average (Wall street stock market index) | | 道琼斯 |
Dào Qióng sī |
Dow Jones industrial average | | 喀斯特 |
kā sī tè |
karst (loanword); weathered limestone often forming caves | | 阿拉斯加雪撬犬 |
Ā lā sī jiā Xuě qiào quǎn |
Alaskan Malamute | | 突厥斯坦 |
Tū jué sī tǎn |
Turkestan | | 鄂尔多斯高原 |
È ěr duō sī Gāo yuán |
Ordos Plateau, Inner Mongolia | | 阿喀琉斯 |
Ā kā liú sī |
Achilles (or Akhilleus or Achilleus), son of Thetis and Peleus, Greek hero central to the Iliad | | 法兰西斯・斐迪南 |
Fǎ lán xī sī · Fěi dí nán |
Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria (1863-1914), heir to the Hapsburg throne, whose assassination in Sarajevo led to World War I |
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