Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 遏


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Meaning

to suppress, to stop, check

Pronunciation

è

Explanation

Left: movement , right: interrogation (=The mouth with tongue enwraps the person in the corner at the interrogation.)

Mnemonic

(Torture is meant) At an interrogation you use 'movements' to: suppress.

Radicals

movement(In some cases this radical is used, but the mnemonics are the same.)
interrogation(also as an interrogative particle: why, how, when)
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Vocabulary

遏制 è zhì to check; to contain; to hold back; to keep within limits; to constrain; to restrain
阻遏 zǔ è to impede; to hold sb back
遏止 è zhǐ to hold back; to check (i.e. to stop sb's advance); to resist; esp. with negative, irresistible, unstoppable etc


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