Memory phrase for the character: 衅

衅

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Meaning

quarrel, dispute, a blood sacrifice

Pronunciation

xìn

Explanation

 Left: blood 血 (.. it drops 丶 on a plate 皿), right: half 半 (A knife cuts 丨 a birthday cake 二 with candles 丷 in half.)

Mnemonic
 
Up to the blood, for the correct half it was: quarreled.

Radicals

血 bloodA drop of blood on a plate 皿.
半 half, semi-A birthday cake 二 with two candles , and a knife 丨 to cut half.




 Vocabulary

挑衅 tiǎo xìn  to provoke; provocation
观衅伺隙 guān xìn sì xì  lit. to look for holes, and observe gaps (idiom); to search out one's opponent's weak points; to look for the Achilles heel
观衅伺隙 guān xìn sì xì  

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