Memory phrase for the character: 尉

尉

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Meaning

military officer

Pronunciation

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Explanation

 From left: buttock seen from the side 尸, show 示, skillful hand 寸

Mnemonic
 
A 'buttocks' shows his skillful hand: that's the military officer.

Radicals

尸 buttocks (in a side view)The radical shikabane has the meaning: corpse 尸. But because of its use in tail 尾, buttocks 尻 or urine 尿, it is generally considered to mean "buttocks".
礻 to show, altarThe radical shimesu is a simplification of "to show" 示, which is a pictogram of an altar.
寸 skillful handImage of a hand 一 forearm 丨 and pulse 丶. It was originally also the distance of one inch (Length: 1 SUN = 3.03 cm) from the hand's palm to the pulse. This also stood for a small amount. The mnemonics use it as "skillful hand" and partly as "to measure".
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 Vocabulary

尉官 いかん  officer below the rank of major, company officer

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