Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 颌
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颌 |
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Meaning |
jaw (= maxilla and mandible) |
Pronunciation |
hé |
Explanation |
Left: to fit 合 (The lid  on the pot 口), right: page, head 页 (=頁; head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) |
Mnemonic
| What is fitting at the head is the jaw (with its upper and lower jaw) |
Radicals
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合
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fit | |
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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.) |
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咢
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jaw, palate | |
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
| 下颌 |
xià hé |
lower jaw; mandible | | 上颌 |
shàng hé |
maxilla (upper jaw) | | 无颌 |
wú hé |
jawless (primitive fish) |
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