Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 溪

溪

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Meaning

 rivulet =small river, creek

Pronunciation

 xī

Explanation

 Left: water 氵, right: What? WHERE? 奚 (The down-reaching hand 爫 wants to fish with the thread 糸 something big 大, but: What? Where?)

Mnemonic

To get to the water, you need to reach down and it seems like a 'big thread', then it is a rivulet.

Radicals

氵 Water
爫 reaching downwards(shows a hand reaching downwards to pluck sth.)
糸 thread(It has in its upper part the radical "short thread" 幺.)
大 big, huge
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Vocabulary

溪流 xī liú stream
小溪 xiǎo xī brook; streamlet
本溪 Běn xī Benxi prefecture level city in Liaoning province in northeast China
涧溪 jiàn xī mountain stream; stream in a valley
溪壑 xī hè valley; mountain gorge

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