Memory phrase for the character: 顾

顾

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Meaning

to take into consideration, to look after

Pronunciation

gù

Explanation

 Left: distress 厄 (Below the cliff 厂 a crouching person 㔾 is in distress.), right: page, leaf 页/頁 (head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一)

Mnemonic
 
(You should plan ahead:) A (potential) distress should (in your head) been taken into consideration.

Radicals

厄 distress, adversity
頁 head, leaderPicture of an eye 目 with emphasized eye-brows 首 to express the special: the head or the chief. (When used as a radical often without eye-brows 頁 meaning forehead). It is always at the right side of a character.
㔾 slumped person(Further radicals with „person“ are: sitting 匕, sitting cross-legged 夂, lying , kneeling ⺈, skilled才, bending マ,卩, or husband 夫)




 Vocabulary

顾问 gù wèn  adviser; consultant
回顾 huí gù  to look back; to review
照顾 zhào gu  to take care of; to show consideration; to attend to; to look after
不顾 bù gù  in spite of; regardless of
顾忌 gù jì  scruple
顾盼自雄 gù pàn zì xióng  to strut about feeling complacent (idiom)
 
 

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