Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 褂
|
|
褂 |
|
Hanzi-Trainer
|
|
|
|
Meaning |
coat, jacket, gown, ensheath |
Pronunciation |
guà |
Explanation |
Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: trigram 卦 (twice earth 圭 as fortune telling 卜 in trigram) |
Mnemonic
| Clothes in fortune telling can ensheath as a coat. |
Radicals
|
衣
|
clothes | |
|
圭
|
piled earth | (As character with the meaning: jade tablet) |
|
卜
|
oracle, mysticism | (This 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.) |
Tip: Go to the radicals that are contained in this character and learn all the characters with this radical systematically!
|
Vocabulary
| 马褂 |
mǎ guà |
buttoned mandarin jacket of the Qing dynasty |
|
|
