Memory phrase for the character: 颌

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

合 fit
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.
咢 jaw, palate




 Vocabulary

下颌 xià hé  lower jaw; mandible
上颌 shàng hé  maxilla (upper jaw)
无颌 wú hé  jawless (primitive fish)
无颌 wú hé  

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