Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 颠
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颠 |
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Meaning |
apex, top (of the head), to fall forwards, inverted |
Pronunciation |
diān |
Explanation |
Left: really, truly 真 (The ten 十 eyes 目 see that the table  is truely real.), right: page, leaf, head 页 (=頁 head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一) |
Mnemonic
| It is truely the forehead the apex. |
Radicals
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真
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really, truly | |
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具
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tool | |
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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
| 颠倒 |
diān dǎo |
to turn upside-down; to reverse; back-to-front; confused; deranged; crazy | | 颠覆 |
diān fù |
to topple (i.e. knock over); to capsize; fig. to overturn (a regime, by plotting or subversion); to undermine; to subvert | | 颠倒黑白 |
diān dǎo hēi bái |
lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately; to misrepresent the facts; to invert right and wrong | | 颠沛流离 |
diān pèi liú lí |
homeless and miserable (idiom); to wander about in a desperate plight; to drift | | 颠簸 |
diān bǒ |
to shake; to jolt; to bump |
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