Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 鞋


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Meaning

shoe

Pronunciation

xié

Explanation

Left: leather (Horned 廿 animals have a skin of leather.), right: 2x earth = piled earth (cf. with road/street , where you walk over piled earth )

Mnemonic

The leather for the piled earth (= the street) is: the shoe!

Radicals

untanned leather
piled earth(As character with the meaning: jade tablet)
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Vocabulary

皮鞋 pí xié leather shoes
鞋子 xié zi shoe
草鞋 cǎo xié straw sandals
蒲鞋 pú xié straw sandals
踏破铁鞋无觅处,得来全不费工夫 tà pò tiě xié wú mì chù , dé lái quán bù fèi gōng fu to travel far and wide looking for sth, only to find it easily
鞋袜 xié wà shoes and socks


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