Memory phrase for the character: 玄

玄

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Meaning

mysterious, black

Pronunciation

xuán

Explanation

 Part of magnet: 磁, where an upper bracket 艹 holds threads 玄 with hanging stones 石 that are mysterious (cf. threads 纟/糸)

Mnemonic
 
The thread hanging from a bracket is mysterious.

Radicals

玄 mysteriousThis radical is easy to remember if you think of “magnet 磁” (cf. magnet, porcelain 磁 [cí]), where stones 石 are hanging at strings 糸 (simplified to 幺 and fixed with a bracket 艹) behave mysteriously.
兹 now, here, thisComprises twice the radical "mysterious 玄"




 Vocabulary

 
桓玄 Huán Xuán  Huan Xuan (369-404), general involved in the break-up of Eastern Jin
 
 

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