Memory phrase for the character: 逮

逮

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Meaning

apprehend, chase, seize, catch up

Pronunciation

TAI

Explanation

 Left: movement 辶, right: to catch 隶 (a hand ヨ/ and an animal [e.g. cat] with a tail 丨 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

辶 movementThe radical shinnyuu stands for movement and thus with the same meaning as the very similar radical ennyou 廴
隶 catching handHere a hand ヨ grabs the tail 丨 of an animal (= the four lines below are the extremities).
尹 Hand with stick




 Vocabulary

逮捕 たいほ  arrest, apprehension, capture

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