Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 萧
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萧 |
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Meaning |
miserable, desolate, dreary, Chinese mugwort |
Pronunciation |
xiāo |
Explanation |
Top: plant 艹, bottom: respectful 肃 (here: hand  with spoon 丨 stiring a "soup") |
Mnemonic
| The plant for making a "soup", is the medicine mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris), used when you feel miserable. |
Radicals
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艹
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grass, plant | |
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隶
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stirring soup | (The official meaning is "slave" but better usable as a hand stirring water (=soup) (The characters 肃 and 隶 are assigned to this radical.)) |
Tip: Go to the radicals that are contained in this character and learn all the characters with this radical systematically!
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Vocabulary
| 萧条 |
xiāo tiáo |
bleak; desolate; (economic) depression or slump | | 萧伯纳 |
Xiāo bó nà |
George Bernard Shaw | | 萧红 |
Xiāo Hóng |
Xiao Hong (1911-1942), prominent woman writer, originally from Heilongjiang |
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