Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 崖


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Meaning

cliff, steep precipice

Pronunciation

GAI
gake

Explanation

Top: mountain , bottom: precipice 厓 (cliff of heaps of soil /)

Mnemonic

A mountain of piled earth like a cliff, is a cliff/precipice.

Radicals

mountain(Picture of a mountain with three peaks.)
cliff(The Radical gandare stands for cliff. Sometimes it is understood as a shield, like in .)
piled earth(twice earth about each other)
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Vocabulary

崖崩れ がけくずれ a landslip, a landslide
がけ cliff

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