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 complete and thus 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
芜秽 wú huì  

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