Memory phrase for the character: 颐

颐

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Meaning

cheek, lower cheek, chin, jaw, to nourish

Pronunciation

yí

Explanation

 Left: variation of: minister, official 臣 (here: image of left cheek 匚 with mouth ロ), right: page, head 页/頁 (head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一)

Mnemonic
 
The cheek at the head stands for: cheek or to nourish.

Radicals

臣 minister
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

颐和园 yí hé yuán  Summer Palace in Beijing
颐养天年 yí yǎng tiān nián  to care for oneself for one's allotted life span (idiom); to retire
颐养 yí yǎng  to look after one's health; to keep fit
颐养 yí yǎng  

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