Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 飘
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飘 |
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Hanzi-Trainer
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Meaning |
to flutter, to float |
Pronunciation |
piāo |
Explanation |
Left: ticket/bank note 票 (In the west 覀/西 you show 示 your ticket.) [West: 西 = Under the horizon 一 the sun 日 sinks 儿 at the sunset in the west], right: wind 风/風 (Into the sail 几 an insect 虫 is pushed by wind.) |
Mnemonic
| (West wind is weak?) The west shows in the sail by: fluttering. |
Radicals
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票
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ticket, ballot | (bank note; person held for ransom) |
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風
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wind | (often simplified to 风) |
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示
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to show, altar | (Shows a simple altar 丁 with a sacrifice 一 and blood 八 is trickling down. Thus the meanings: to show and altar.) |
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
| 飘扬 |
piāo yáng |
wave; flutter; fly | | 飘浮 |
piāo fú |
to float; to hover | | 飘落 |
piāo luò |
to float down; to touch down slowly; fig. to decline | | 邵飘萍 |
Shào Piāo píng |
Shao Piaoping (1884-1926), pioneer of journalism | | 飘洒 |
piāo sǎ |
suave; graceful; fluent and elegant (calligraphy) | | 飘拂 |
piāo fú |
to drift lightly | | 飘渺 |
piāo miǎo |
faintly discernable; as in a mist | | 鸾飘凤泊 |
luán piāo fèng bó |
lit. firebird soars, phoenix alights (idiom); fig. exquisite bold calligraphy; fig. marriage breaks up; fig. scholar unsuccessful |
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