Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 阎
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阎 |
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Meaning |
gate to a lane / community |
Pronunciation |
yán |
Explanation |
Outside: gate 门/ 門, inside: pitfall 臽 (falling person ⺈ over a pit trap 臼, but here: 臼 as a lane with houses on both sides E 彐) |
Mnemonic
| Through this gate the person comes to the residential street: The entrance gate. |
Radicals
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门
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gate | (Simplified from 門, which shows a gate with two wings.) |
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臽
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pitfall | (A person falls ⺈ into a pitfall that is formed by the radical for mortar 臼.) |
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臼
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mortar | |
Tip: Go to the radicals that are contained in this character and learn all the characters with this radical systematically!
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Vocabulary
| 阎锡山 |
Yán Xī shān |
Yan Xishan (1883-1960), warlord in Shanxi | | 阎魔 |
Yán mó |
variant of 阎罗; Yama, King of Hell; translation of Sanskrit: Yama Raja |
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