Memory phrase for the character: 琉

琉

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Meaning

precious stone

Pronunciation

liú

Explanation

 Left: king, jade 王, right: 㐬 ("newborn baby" as a child turned upside down : the child 子 comes with head first, with amniotic fluid 川)

Mnemonic
 
If a 'jade' gets a new live, then as: a precious stone.

Radicals

王 king
玉 jade, king
㐬 new born babyChild 子 turned upside down: the child comes with head first), below: water/amniotic fluid 川.




 Vocabulary

琉璃 liú lí  glazed tile (used on roof of palaces)
阿喀琉斯 Ā kā liú sī  Achilles (or Akhilleus or Achilleus), son of Thetis and Peleus, Greek hero central to the Iliad
琉璃瓦 liú lí wǎ  glazed roof tile
 

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