Memory phrase for the character: 癫

癫

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Meaning

convulsions, crazy, mentally deranged

Pronunciation

diān

Explanation

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

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

Radicals

疒 sicknessSimilar radicals are building 广 or cliff 厂.
真 really, truly
頁 head, leaderPicture of an eye 目 with emphasized eye-brows 首 to express the special: the head or the chief. (When used as a radical often without eye-brows 頁 meaning forehead). It is always at the right side of a character.




 Vocabulary

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

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