Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 颅
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颅 |
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Meaning |
skull |
Pronunciation |
lú |
Explanation |
Left: Luxembourg 卢 (forking of the way卜, buttocks 尸), right: page, leaf, forehead 页/頁 (head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) |
Mnemonic
| If there is only one hair 卜 on the head 尸, this head 頁 is a skull. |
Radicals
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卜
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oracle, mysticism | (This radical is considered to be a simplification of: fortune telling 占 (crack 卜 in the shell 口 of a turtle from which the fortune was told.). Sometimes it is read as a forking of a road.) |
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尸
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buttocks in side view | (This radical has the meaning: corpse 尸. But because of its use in tail 尾 or urine 尿 or flatulence 屁, it is generally considered to mean 'buttocks'.) |
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頁
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head, leader | (Picture 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.) |
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
| 头颅 |
tóu lú |
head; skull | | 颅骨 |
dú lóu |
skull (of a dead body) | | 颅测量 |
lú cè liáng |
Craniometry |
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