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HSK
7-9

to be

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

nai3 nǎi

Meaning


Primary

to be

Alternatives

be, is, are, only then

Mnemonic


[n-] Ned Flanders is in the [3] basement of the [-ai] high school, where he volunteers. One kid is sitting next to the school supplies, trying 乃 to be a pair of 乃 stairs (he bends over in a contorted manner to approximate the shape) because that is all he wants to be in life. Ned Flanders repeatedly tells him that Jesus loves him and he doesnt need 乃 to be a set of 乃 stairs that everyone literally walks on. He picks him up and walks up the 乃 stairs of the basement hoping he can 乃 be the person that saves this strange student.

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