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HSK
7-9

suck

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

suo1 suō

Meaning


Primary

suck

Alternatives

sucks, sucking, sucked, slurp

Mnemonic


[su-] Superman is in [1] front of the [-o] office building where he is putting on a show for the pope and a bunch of office workers in the office parking lot. He places a large pile of 糸 thread on the parking lot asphalt, then uses his 口 mouth to 嗦 suck the 糸 threads into his belly while flying above. He 嗦 sucks so strongly that he accidentally 嗦 sucks in some office worker ties and the hat of the pope, too.

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