Memory phrase for the character: 肺

肺

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Meaning

lungs

Pronunciation

HAI

Explanation

 Left: body part 月/肉, right: simplification of city 市 (Better: shoulders 一, lungs/chest 冂 and middle of the body 丨)

Mnemonic
 
The body part below head 丶 and shoulders 一 with the lobes of the lung 冂 lateral to the backbone 丨 are: the lungs.

Radicals

肉 body part, meatThe radical niku is typically at the left side of a composition and drawn as: 月, which looks equal to: "moon, month 月" but still has the meaning 'body part'.
市 city, market placeThis radical is a combination of a cover: 亠 and cloth: 巾
巾 cloth, width巾 [はば] means width. The trainer also understands it as: "cloth".




 Vocabulary

肺炎 はいえん  pneumonia
肺 はい  lung

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