Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 覆

覆

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Meaning

 to cover, to overturn, to reply a letter

Pronunciation

 fù

Explanation

 Top: west 西, bottom: to go 彳, repeat 复 (= Lying or in sun 日 sitting cross-legged 夂 is to be repeated)

Mnemonic

The west they go in the repeatings that everything is overturned and covered up.

Radicals

西 west
夂 upturned foot(upturned foot or crossed legs - do not mistake with the hand with a stick: /攴)
复 to repeat, again(also: reply (to a letter))
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Vocabulary

覆盖 fù gài to cover
颠覆 diān fù to topple (i.e. knock over); to capsize; fig. to overturn (a regime, by plotting or subversion); to undermine; to subvert
重蹈覆辙 chóng dǎo fù zhé to follow the track of an overturned cart; to repeat a disastrous policy
覆辙 fù zhé disastrous policy

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