Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 瓶


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Meaning

bottle, vase, pitcher, jar

Pronunciation

píng

Explanation

Left: unite (When you are coming out of a buddhist temple you shall be united.) [ = image of a temple's entrance gate with double upper traverses, which actually means "open", as these gates have no doors], right: roof tile (interhooked tiles)

Mnemonic

(The roof tiles are generalized understood as "pottery") For making sth. 'uniting' (= a container) the pottery is formed into a bottle or pitcher.

Radicals

to combine, to merge(When you are coming out of a buddhist. temple you shall be united. - [ = image of a temple's entrance gate with double upper traverses, which actually means "open", as these gates have no door])
coming out
tile
well
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Vocabulary

烧瓶 shāo píng laboratory flask
瓶子 píng zi bottle
花瓶 huā píng flower vase; fig. just a pretty face

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