Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 颓
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颓 |
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Meaning |
to crumble, to collapse, to decline, decadent, dejected |
Pronunciation |
tuí |
Explanation |
Left: bald, blunt 秃 (The rice plants 禾 are placed on the table 几 (for peeling / cleaning) until they are bald.), right: page, leaf, head 页/頁 (head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) |
Mnemonic
| The bald head has crumbled. |
Radicals
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禾
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grain | (plant 木 of the grain with one spike ノ) |
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几
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small table | (A similar radical is ordinary: 凡, which shows this table with a scratch. Sometimes this radical is seen as a sail. It is at the right side of the characters.) |
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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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Vocabulary
| 颓萎 |
tuí wěi |
listless; dispirited | | 颓垣断壁 |
tuí yuán duàn bì |
crumbling fences and dilapidated walls (idiom) | | 颓废 |
tuí fèi |
decadent; dispirited; depressed; dejected | | 颓风 |
tuí fēng |
degenerate custom; decadent ways | | 颓靡 |
tuí mí |
devastated |
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