Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 翁


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Meaning

elderly man, father

Pronunciation

wēng

Explanation

Top: public (eight noses form public), below: wings

Mnemonic

Publicly wearing wings is sth. for elderly men.

Radicals

public
feather
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Vocabulary

主人翁 zhǔ rén wēng master (of one's own destiny etc)
老翁 lǎo wēng old man
百万富翁 bǎi wàn fù wēng millionaire
鹬蚌相争渔翁得利 yù bàng xiāng zhēng yú wēng dé lì lit. sandpiper and clam war together (and the fisherman catches both, idiom); fig. neighbors who can't agree lose out to a third party

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