Memory phrase for the character: 账


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Meaning

bill, account, debt

Pronunciation

zhàng

Explanation

Left: money 贝/貝, right: long 长/長 (Long mane in the wind of a galloping horse)

Mnemonic


 
It's related to money and it can be long: The bill!

Radicals

shell, moneyThis is simplified from 貝, which showed a cowries-shell 目 with two feelers/antennas 八 that was used as money.
longThis radical is similar to horse 馬 and can be understood as a galloping horse with the horse's long mane blowing in the wind.




 Vocabulary

开账 kāi zhàng  to make out a bill
销账 xiāo zhàng  to write off; to cancel an item from accounts
还账 huán zhàng  to settle and account
还账 huán zhàng  


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