扣

kòu = k + ou4

to fasten / to button / button / buckle / knot / to arrest / to confiscate / to deduct (money) / discount / to knock / to smash, spike or dunk (a ball) / to cover (with a bowl etc) / (fig.) to tag a label on sb / (Tw) (loanword) code

扣 = 口 + 扌 : Karl Marx (k) manufactures a new button (扣) out of a mandarin (口) in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4). He does so by grapping the mandarin tightly in one hand, and carving out the button out of the peel by rotating a toy claw (扌) around the mandarin with his other hand.

kòu = k + ou4

button

扣 = 口 + 扌 : Karl Marx (k) manufactures a new button (扣) out of a mandarin (口) in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4). He does so by grapping the mandarin tightly in one hand, and carving out the button out of the peel by rotating a toy claw (扌) around the mandarin with his other hand.

扣 character breakdown

扣
- 口
- 扌
  - 亅
  - 二
    - 一

kǒu = k + ou3

mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).

shǒu = sh + ou3

"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc

扌 = 二 + 亅 : Mnemonic symbol: a toy claw.

Characters with 扣 as component

kòu = k + ou4

(a measure of width of cloth)

Words with 扣

a hundred percent / to the letter / out-and-out

brokerage / a commission paid to a middleman / euphemism for a bribe / a kickback

to dock / to deduct / to embezzle

to withhold tax (from employee's salary)

to strum a chord (Tw)

Q

q

R

r

(Tw) (loanword) QR code

shackle (U-shaped link)

to suspend (a license etc)

hardcore (loanword)

lit. various cuts and deductions (idiom) / fig. greatly reduced / substantially scaled back

Sentences with 扣

扣 currently does not appear in any sentence.