Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 骥

骥

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Meaning

 thoroughbred horse, refined and virtuous

Pronunciation

 jì

Explanation

 Left: horse 马/馬 (with mane 三, four legs 灬 und tail ㄅ), right: to hope, wish 冀 (Also in the north 北, our fields 田 shall be commonly 共 extraordinary 異/ 异: This is what we hope)

Mnemonic

The horse, we hope for is: a thoroughbred horse.

Radicals

马 horse(simplified from 馬)
北 north(Two persons sit back-to-back, because they feel cold in the north.)
異 extraordinary, strange(This traditional 異 was simplified to 异 ("yì") and also means: different, other, hetero-)
共 together; common
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Vocabulary

老骥嘶风 lǎo jì sī fēng old steed sniffs the wind (idiom); fig. aged person with great aspirations
骥骜 jì ào fine horse; thoroughbred
冯骥才 Féng Jì cái Feng Jicai (1942-), novelist from Tianjin, author of Extraordinary people in our ordinary world 俗世奇人

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