Chúfáng lǐ guà zhe yì bǎ yòng le duō nián de jiù sháozi.
In the kitchen hangs an old spoon that has been used for many years.
Tips
usage
In daily speech, 勺子 (sháozi) is more common than 勺 alone. In northern China, 勺 is the standard word for spoon. In southern China, 调羹 (tiáogēng) is often used instead.
memory
勺 looks like a ladle or spoon - the stroke inside the enclosure is the bowl of the spoon.
Wrap radical curving from upper-right down to lower-left - pictograph of a hand or arm bent around something, the indexing radical for enclosing actions (包 wrap, 匀 even, 匆 hurry). In 勺 it forms the bowl of the spoon, the curved cup that holds the contents.
Single dot inside the curve - abstract indicator of the spoon's contents, the bit of liquid or grain scooped up. The two strokes together depict a ladle with something in its hollow; the dot is what turns a 勹 'wrapping' into a 勺 'spoon-holding-something.' Same content-marker dot in 太 and 玉.
