Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 翻

翻

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Meaning

 flutter, flap, change, turn over

Pronunciation

 HON
hirugaeru/su

Explanation

 Left: guard, watch 番 (The ripe rice plants [=禾+米] on the field 田 is numbered and needs to be guarded.), right: wings 羽

Mnemonic

(At a glider plane) Watch the wings, if they flutter.

Radicals

番 number, guard
羽 wing
釆 rice & rice plant(The radical: nogome is understood as a combination of rice-plant 禾 and rice 米)
米 rice(The rice plant has this radical: 禾)
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Vocabulary

翻る ひるがえる flutter, wave
翻訳 ほんやく translation, de-encryption, deciphering

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