Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 顽


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Meaning

stupid, obstinate, stubborn, mischievous, naughty

Pronunciation

wán

Explanation

Left: Yuan/money , right: page, leaf, (fore)head (= head with shoulders and eyebrows )

Mnemonic

Who shows his Yuan (open) at the forehead, is stupid.

Radicals

yuan
head, leader(Picture of an eye with emphasized eye-brows to express the special: the head or the chief. (When used as a radical often without eye-brows meaning forehead). It is always at the right side of a character.)
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Vocabulary

顽强 wán qiáng tenacious; hard to defeat
顽固 wán gù stubborn; obstinate


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