Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 膊
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膊 |
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Meaning |
shoulder, upper arm |
Pronunciation |
bó |
Explanation |
Left: body part 月/肉, right: to announce 尃 (just now 甫 with skillful hand 寸) [A hand  for holding an item 丶 is what I need 用 just now] cf. elbow 肘 |
Mnemonic
| The body part, that somehow looks like the upper body 甫 and where my 'skillful hand' 寸 is, is the shoulder. |
Radicals
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肉
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meat | (and body parts) |
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尃
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to announce | (.. just now 甫 and with a skillful hand 寸) |
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甫
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just, just now | |
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寸
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skillful hand | (Image of a hand 一 forearm 丨 and pulse 丶. It was originally also the distance of one inch (Length: 1 ts'wun = 3.72 cm) from the hand's palm to the pulse. This also stood for a small amount. In the mnemonic, it is used as "skillful hand".) |
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Vocabulary
| 胳膊 |
gē bo |
arm | | 赤膊 |
chì bó |
bare to the waist | | 袒膊 |
tǎn bó |
to strip to the waist; to be bare to the waist | | 胳膊肘朝外拐 |
gē bo zhǒu cháo wài guǎi |
the elbow turns the wrong way; to favor an outsider instead of someone on one's own side (idiom) |
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