Memory phrase for the character: 鹦

鹦

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Meaning

parrot

Pronunciation

yīng

Explanation

Left: infant, baby 婴 (Sucking mouths 冂 at the nipples 人 of the woman 女 indicate infants/babies), right: bird 鸟

Mnemonic

Like an infant (talks) this bird: the parrot.

Radicals

婴	infant, baby
鳥	bird	Also this 隹 is seen as a bird.
贝	shell, money	This is simplified from 貝, which showed a cowries-shell 目 with two feelers/antennas 八 that was used as money.
女	woman	The character for tall 大 shows a person 人 with outstretched arms 一. If you shift the lower strokes towards each other, you can get the: woman 女. The wider lower area can be understood as female hips?

Vocabulary

鹦鹉螺	yīng wǔ luó	nautilus; ammonite (fossil spiral shell)
鹦鹉热	yīng wǔ rè	psittacosis; ornithosis; parrot fever
鹦鹉学舌	yīng wǔ xué shé	to parrot; to repeat uncritically what sb says

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