膊
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shoulder; upper arm
Formation & memory
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How 膊 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
⺼ meaning “flesh” + 尃 sound ()
Components ⺼ 尃
How to remember it
shoulder to arm · Heisig RSH #2797
flesh + gummed label
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 膊
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 赤膊上阵 | lit. to go into battle bare-breasted (idiom); fig. to go all out; to come out in the open | |
| 打赤膊 | to bare one's chest; bare-chested | |
| 胳膊拧不过大腿 | (idiom) the weak cannot overcome the strong | |
| 胳膊肘朝外拐 | lit. the elbow turns outward (idiom); fig. to side with outsiders rather than one's own pe… | |
| 赤膊 | bare to the waist | |
| 胳膊肘往外拐 | see 胳膊肘朝外拐[ge1 bo5 zhou3 chao2 wai4 guai3] | |
| 搭膊 | shoulder bag | |
| 胳膊肘子 | see 胳膊肘[ge1 bo5 zhou3] | |
| 臂膊 | arm | |
| 肩膊 | shoulder | |
| 袒膊 | to strip to the waist; to be bare to the waist | |
| 胳膊肘 | elbow | |
| 胳膊 | arm; CL:隻|只[zhi1],條|条[tiao2],雙|双[shuang1] | |
| 捋胳膊 | to push up one's sleeves |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 尃 — compare how they read.