Memory phrase for the character: 颊

颊

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Meaning

cheeks

Pronunciation

jiá

Explanation

 Left: to squeeze 夹 (A husband 夫 between persons 丷 (=人) is squeezed.), right: page, head 页/頁 (= head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一)

Mnemonic
 
They are squeezing the head: the cheeks.

Radicals

夹 squeeze in
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.




 Vocabulary

脸颊 liǎn jiá  cheek
颊窝 jiá wō  dimple; heat-sensing facial pit of a snake
面颊 miàn jiá  cheek
腮颊 sāi jiá  cheek; jaw
腮颊 sāi jiá  

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