残
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to destroy; to spoil; to ruin; to injure; cruel; oppressive; savage; brutal; incomplete; disabled; to remain; to survive; remnant; surplus
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 歹 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 殘
- Common rank
- #931
- Unicode
- U+6B8B
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
incomplete · Heisig RSH #1966
bones + float
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 残
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 中国残联 | China Disabled Persons' Federation (abbr. for 中國殘疾人聯合會|中国残疾人联合会[Zhong1 guo2 Can2 ji2 ren2 … | |
| 中国残疾人联合会 | China Disabled Persons' Federation | |
| 自相残杀 | to massacre one another (idiom); internecine strife | |
| 骨肉相残 | close kindred slaughter one another (idiom); internecine strife | |
| 伤残人员 | the injured; wounded personnel | |
| 老残游记 | The Travels of Lao Tsan, novel by late Qing novelist Liu E 劉鶚|刘鹗[Liu2 E4] | |
| 残民害物 | to harm people and damage property (idiom) | |
| 残生 | remaining years of one's life | |
| 自残 | to mutilate oneself; self-harm | |
| 手残 | (coll.) klutz | |
| 长残 | (slang) to grow up unattractive; to lose one's looks as one grows older | |
| 残奥会 | Paralympic Games | |
| 病残 | sick or disabled; invalid; disability | |
| 残留物 | remnant; residue; material left over | |
| 残本 | extant fragment (of book) | |
| 残余物 | litter; trash | |
| 了此残生 | to live out the rest of one's life | |
| 残次品 | defective goods | |
| 残年短景 | at the end of the year (idiom) | |
| 残月 | waning moon |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 戋 — compare how they read.