乳

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(bound form) breast; (bound form) milk; (bound form) newborn; suckling

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Formation & memory

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

乚 meaning “hidden” + 孚 sound ( fú )

Components 孚乚

breast · Heisig RSH #2430

fledglings + fishhook

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
乳白天空	rǔ bái tiān kōng	whiteout
乳山市	Rǔ shān Shì	Rushan, a county-level city in Weihai City 威海市[Wei1 hai3 Shi4], Shandong
视神经乳头	shì shén jīng rǔ tóu	optic disk (terminal of the optic nerve on the retina)
乳白色	rǔ bái sè	milky white
乳黄色	rǔ huáng sè	cream (color)
母乳代用品	mǔ rǔ dài yòng pǐn	breast milk substitute
乳山	Rǔ shān	see 乳山市[Ru3 shan1 Shi4]
乳头	rǔ tóu	nipple
乳儿	rǔ ér	nursing infant; child less than one year old
乳白	rǔ bái	milky white; cream color
乳源县	Rǔ yuán Xiàn	see 乳源瑤族自治縣\|乳源瑶族自治县[Ru3 yuan2 Yao2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4]
乳化	rǔ huà	to emulsify
发乳	fà rǔ	hair cream
下乳	xià rǔ	to promote lactation (TCM); (coll.) underboob
乳制品	rǔ zhì pǐn	dairy products
南乳	nán rǔ	fermented soybean curd
乳光	rǔ guāng	(mineralogy, physics) opalescence
通乳	tōng rǔ	(medicine) to unblock breastmilk flow (of a nursing mother with clogged milk ducts)
乳化剂	rǔ huà jì	emulsifier
乳名	rǔ míng	infant name; pet name for a child

Characters sharing the sound component 孚 — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
孚 sound part	fú	to brood over eggs; to have confidence
浮	fú	to drift, to float; mobile, temporary, unstable; reckless
俘	fú	prisoner of war; take as prisoner
蜉	fú	wasp; mayfly; large ant
稃	fū	chaff, husk
莩	fú	culm, stem; the membrane lining a stem
殍	piǎo	to starve to death
脬	pāo	bladder
桴	fú	beam, rafter
郛	fú	suburbs; city walls