Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 蒜

蒜

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Meaning

 garlic

Pronunciation

 suàn

Explanation

 Top: plant 艹, bottom: 2x to show 示

Mnemonic

(Think of its smell when both: eating and farting) The plant that shows twice is the garlic.

Radicals

艹 grass, plant
示 to show, altar(Shows a simple altar 丁 with a sacrifice 一 and blood 八 is trickling down. Thus the meanings: to show and altar.)
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Vocabulary

蒜茸钳 suàn róng qián garlic press
大蒜 dà suàn garlic
蒜苗 suàn miáo garlic shoot; garlic sprouts
香蒜酱 xiāng suàn jiàng garlic sauce; pesto

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