Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 颖
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颖 |
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Meaning |
clever, gifted, new and original, head of grain |
Pronunciation |
yǐng |
Explanation |
Top: a short while ago 顷 (sitting person 匕, head 页/頁), below left: rice plant 禾 |
Mnemonic
| It sits on the rice plant the spike (="the grain's head"), which is considered: "clever and gifted". |
Radicals
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匕
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spoon, ladle | (In the explanations this radical is also used as a sitting person. (Further radicals with „person“ are: sitting cross-legged 夂, lying  , kneeling ⺈, skilled 才, bending マ,卩, slumped 㔾 or husband 夫)) |
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禾
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grain | (plant 木 of the grain with one spike ノ) |
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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.) |
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
| 新颖 |
xīn yǐng |
lit. new bud; fig. new and original | | 关颖珊 |
Guān Yǐng shān |
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