Memory phrase for the character: 駒

駒

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Meaning

foal, colt, young horse, shogi/chess figure

Pronunciation

koma

Explanation

Left: horse 馬 (image with mane 三 in the wind, four legs 灬 and the tail フ), right: sentence, phrase 句 (sth. wrapped 勹 out the mouth 口); Here: see similarity to placenta/womb 胞

Mnemonic

The horse that comes out of the uterus 勹 (= the birth canal 勹) with its head 口 at birth is a foal.

Radicals

馬	horse	Picture of a running horse with the mane in the wind, four legs 灬 and the tail.
句	phrase, clause
勹	wrap	The function of this radical 勹 for “to wrap” is easily recognizable with "package 包" or "chest/breast 胸".

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