Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 逮


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Meaning

apprehend, chase, seize, catch up

Pronunciation

TAI

Explanation

Left: movement 辶, right: (Hand ヨ/ and an animal [e.g. cat] with a tail and four extremities/limb spreading away from the body.)

Mnemonic

When the hand seizes the tail of the animal in one movement, it has caught it.

Radicals

movement(The radical shinnyuu stands for movement and thus has the same meaning as the very similar radical ennyou )
catching hand(Here a hand ヨ grabs the tail of an animal (= the four lines below are the extremities). (But sometimes it is a hand stirs water with a stick))
Hand with stick
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Vocabulary

逮捕 たいほ arrest/apprehension/capture

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