Memory phrase for the character: 赎

赎

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Meaning

redeem, to ransom

Pronunciation

shú

Explanation

Left: money 贝/貝, right: to sell 卖 (For ten 十 [coins] the hat 乛 of the leader 头 is sold) - [leader 头 = The big 大 one with protruding eyes 丶]

Mnemonic

To use money for 'selling' means to redeem.

Radicals

贝	shell, money	This is simplified from 貝, which showed a cowries-shell 目 with two feelers/antennas 八 that was used as money.
卖	to sell
乛	something ???
头	head, leader	The big 大 person with protruding staring eyes 丶丶 is the head and leader.

Vocabulary

赎金	shú jīn	ransom
赎罪日战争	Shú zuì rì zhàn zhēng	the Yom Kippur war of October 1973 between Israel and her Arab neighbors
赎罪日	Shú zuì rì	Yom Kippur or Day of Atonement (Jewish holiday)
掳人勒赎	lǔ rén lè shú	kidnapping for ransom
掳人勒赎	lǔ rén lè shú

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