Memory phrase for the character: 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 釆 [=禾+米] on the field 田 are numbered and need 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 plantThe radical: nogome is understood as a merge of rice-plant 禾 and rice 米
米 riceThe rice plant has this radical: 禾




 Vocabulary

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

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