Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 癫


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Meaning

convulsions, crazy, mentally deranged

Pronunciation

diān

Explanation

Outside: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick), inside: apex, inverted (It is truely that the forehead is the apex, where you return/inverte)

Mnemonic

The disease, where you "inverte" are the convulsions of a crazy person.

Radicals

sickness(Similar radicals are building 广 or cliff .)
really, truly
head, leader(Picture of an eye with emphasized eye-brows to express the special: the head or the chief. (When used as a radical often without eye-brows meaning forehead). It is always at the right side of a character.)
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Vocabulary

癫痫 diān xián epilepsy
癫狂 diān kuáng deranged; mad; cracked; zany
疯癫 fēng diān insane; crazy


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