Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 盐
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盐 |
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Meaning |
salt |
Pronunciation |
yán |
Explanation |
Top: 圤 (earth 土, fortune telling 卜 also understood as a branching), bottom: bowl 皿 |
Mnemonic
| From earth it can be separated (branched off) and collected in a bowl: salt. |
Radicals
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土
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earth, ground | |
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卜
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oracle, mysticism | (This radical is considered to be a simplification of: fortune telling 占 (crack 卜 in the shell 口 of a turtle from which the fortune was told.). Sometimes it is read as a forking of a road.) |
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皿
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bowl | |
Tip: Go to the radicals that are contained in this character and learn all the characters with this radical systematically!
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Vocabulary
| 食盐 |
shí yán |
edible salt | | 盐酸 |
yán suān |
hydrochloric acid HCl | | 盐滩 |
yán tān |
salt flats; salt lake | | 硅酸盐 |
guī suān yán |
silicate |
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