Memory phrase for the character: 赃

赃

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Meaning

stolen goods, booty, spoils, loot

Pronunciation

zāng

Explanation

Left: money 贝/貝, right: farmstead 庄 (A building 广 with the earth 土)

Mnemonic


 
The money, that (is hidden) in a building under the earth, is a stolen good.

Radicals

贝 shell, moneyThis is simplified from 貝, which showed a cowries-shell 目 with two feelers/antennas 八 that was used as money.
庄 farmsteadThe farmstead is either the building 广 adjacent to the earth 土 or the building in which there is earth (= dirt).




 Vocabulary

贪赃枉法 tān zāng wǎng fǎ  corruption and abuse of the law (idiom); to take bribes and bend the law
赃物 zāng wù  booty; stolen property
追赃 zhuī zāng  to order the return of stolen goods
分赃 fēn zāng  to share the booty; to divide ill-gotten gains
 


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