Memory phrase for the character: 褂

褂

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Meaning

coat, jacket, gown, ensheath

Pronunciation

guà

Explanation

 Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: trigram 卦 (Here part 圭 of path/road 街 where earth was piled up) & fork 卜 in the road.

Mnemonic
 
The clothes for the street with the fork is the coat that ensheathes you.

Radicals

衣 clothes
圭 piled earthTwo times earth 土 on top of each other stands for piled-up earth. (Standing alone it has the meaning: jade sceptre)
卜 oracle, mysticismThis radical is considered to be a simplification of: fortune telling 占 (crack 卜 in the shell 口 of a turtle from which the fortune was told.). Sometimes it is read as a forking of a road.




 Vocabulary

马褂 mǎ guà  buttoned mandarin jacket of the Qing dynasty
马褂 mǎ guà  

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