Memory phrase for the character: 舷

舷

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Meaning

side of a ship or an aircraft

Pronunciation

xián

Explanation

 Left: boat 舟, right: mysterious, occult 玄 (part of magnet: 磁, where a upper bracket 艹 holds threads 玄 with hanging stones 石 that are mysterious.)

Mnemonic
 
The ship has mysterious sides.

Radicals

舟 boatIt shows the image of a rowing boat without a stern, with two people, oars laid across and the bow at the top.
玄 mysteriousThis radical is easy to remember if you think of “magnet 磁” (cf. magnet, porcelain 磁 [cí]), where stones 石 are hanging at strings 糸 (simplified to 幺 and fixed with a bracket 艹) behave mysteriously.




 Vocabulary

船舷 chuán xián  sides of a ship; ship's railing; fig. the dividing line between shipboard expenses and onshore freight charges
舷梯 xián tī  gangway; ramp (to board a ship or plane)
左舷 zuǒ xián  port (side of a ship)
左舷 zuǒ xián  

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