HSK Guide

to record, to write down; to remember, to bear in mind; a note, an account; a mark

(fourth tone, falling)

繁体:

to record, to write down; to remember, to bear in mind; a note, an account; a mark

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拼音

  • (fourth tone, falling)

to record, to write down; to remember, to bear in mind; a note, an account; a mark

字形拆解

Ideographic description

⿰讠己The sequence reads left to right and describes how the parts are arranged.

  • meaning partno entry yetThe speech radical: what is recorded is words.
  • sound partno entry yet己 jǐ for the sound; on its own it means "oneself".

Mnemonic

Speech 讠 with 己 jǐ for the sound: words set down so they are not lost. Memory and the written record are the same idea here — 日记 a diary, 记者 a reporter, 记得 to remember, 记住 to fix in mind. Take care with the right-hand element: 己 jǐ has an open top, 已 yǐ "already" is half closed, 巳 sì is closed.

A memory aid written by HSK Guide editors. It is not an etymology and does not describe the historical origin of the character.