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noun #4,989

Meanings

  1. 1 forehead
  2. 2 quota
  3. 3 amount

Examples

HSK 3
Wǒmen xūyào zhīfù éwài de fèiyòng.
We need to pay extra fees.
HSK 4
Qǐng quèrèn yīxià jīn'é.
Please confirm the amount.
HSK 5
Jīnnián dàxué zhāoshēng míng'é zēngjiā le.
The university admission quota increased this year.

Tips

memory
(guest) + (head) - the forehead you see when greeting a guest

Components

radical
head; page
Right side is the head radical, originally a pictograph of a person with a prominent head. specifies the front of the head - the forehead. Same head-as-radical family includes (neck), (cheek), (face), (eulogise); a quick way to spot face-and-head vocabulary.
phonetic
guest; visitor
Left supplies the sound. The ke to e shift is large in modern Mandarin but the connection holds through the shared phonetic core, also seen in , , , . itself shows a roof over (each arrival) - visitors stepping in under one's eaves - but that imagery does not carry into .

Stroke Order

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