Memory phrase for the character: 袖

袖

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Meaning

sleeve, to tuck inside one's sleeve

Pronunciation

xiù

Explanation

 Left: clothes/cloth 衤/衣, right: reason 由 (The seedling /sprout 丨 in the field 田 has its reason)

Mnemonic
 
If the cloth has something "sprouting" out (like a seedling 丨), it is: the sleeve.

Radicals

衣 clothes
由 reason, causeFirst, the root shoot 丨 bursts its shell 田 (cf. armor, shield 甲). And this gives the sprout丨 on the field 田 its reason 由.




 Vocabulary

领袖 lǐng xiù  leader
拂袖而去 fú xiù ér qù  to brush with one's sleeve then go (idiom); to turn and leave abruptly
拂袖而去 fú xiù ér qù  

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