Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 颉
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颉 |
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Hanzi-Trainer
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Meaning |
fly upward (bird), soar, contest |
Pronunciation |
xié |
Explanation |
Left: happy 吉 (simplification of 喜, where the scholar 士 has beans 豆 in the mouth 口 and is happy.), right: page, head 页 (=頁; head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) |
Mnemonic
| The happyiness (above) the heads is: to fly upwards. |
Radicals
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吉
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happiness | |
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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
| 仓颉 |
Cāng Jié |
Cang Jie, legendary scribe of the Yellow Emperor and creator of Chinese writing; Cangjie input method (computing) |
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