Memory phrase for the character: 秽

秽

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Meaning

dirt, filth

Pronunciation

huì

Explanation

 Left: rice plant 禾, right: years of age 岁 (Like a mountain 山, such (many) evenings 夕 are my years of life.)

Mnemonic
 
(Threshing rice produces a lot of chaff or husks.) The rice plants create (during threshing) a mountain and in the evening it is: dirty.

Radicals

禾 grainGrain plant 木 with a spike ノ of grain
山 mountain
夕 eveningThis radical is similar to moon 月, but at the evening the moon is not yet complete and thus has only one inner line.




 Vocabulary

自惭形秽 zì cán xíng huì  to feel ashamed of one's inferiority (idiom); to feel inferior
污秽 wū huì  nasty; sordid; filthy
芜秽 wú huì  to be overgrown with weeds
 

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