lame

Origin & mnemonic

This radical originates from a pictograph in oracle-bone script depicting a person with a limp or unbalanced movement of the lower limbs. The shape reflects two unequal legs, one weaker than the other.

Mnemonic: Remember these three strokes as a person limping unevenly on unequal legs.

• 尢wāng🔊

  lame

  3 strokes

• 尤yóu🔊

  outstanding

  4 strokes

• 尥liào🔊

  to give a backward kick (e.g. of a horse)

  6 strokes

• 尪wāng🔊

  feeble

  7 strokes

• 尬gà🔊

  (bound form) embarrassing; awkward

  7 strokes

• 尩wāng🔊

  variant of 尪[wang1]

  8 strokes

• 就jiù🔊

  (after a suppositional clause) in that case; then

  HSK 1

  12 strokes

• 尰zhǒng🔊

  swell

  12 strokes

• 尲gān🔊

  variant of 尷|尴[gan1]

  13 strokes

• 尴gān🔊

  used in 尷尬|尴尬[gan1 ga4]

  13 strokes

• 尶gān🔊

  old variant of 尷|尴[gan1]

  17 strokes