扣

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

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扣

釦

🔊 kòu = k + ou4

button

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How to pronounce 扣

MandarinBanana teaches pronunciation with the Marilyn Method: every Pinyin syllable is one initial plus one final, the initial becomes a person, an animal or a deity, and the final becomes a place in your memory palace — with the tone deciding which part of that place the scene happens in. Remember the little story below for each half and the whole syllable comes back with them.

kòu

= k initial

K is for Karl Marx.

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+ ou4 final

In the outhouse’s bathroom.

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扣 character breakdown

Chinese characters are built out of smaller characters. Each component carries a mnemonic symbol - one concrete object that stands in for it - and a mnemonic story hands those objects to the person and the place that stand for the pronunciation. Learn a component once and every character that reuses it gets easier.

• 扣
  • 口
  • 扌
    • 二
      • 一
    • 亅

Component Translations

口

🔊 kǒu = k + ou3

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

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扌

🔊 shǒu = sh + ou3

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

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Characters with 扣 as component

筘

筘

🔊 kòu = k + ou4

(a measure of width of cloth)

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