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HSK
7-9

to endure

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

kan1 kān

Meaning


Primary

to endure

Alternatives

endure, endures, enduring, endured, to bear, bear

Mnemonic


[k-] Kermit the Frog is in [1] front of the [-an] pawn shop where he is being forced 堪 to endure a cruel punishment for being falsely accused of shoplifting. Next to the door, on the patchy 土 soil of the pawn shop lawn, he is crammed into a 其 clothes hamper. The pawn shop employees and customers then dump 匚 box after 匚 box of 土 soil and second-hand pawn shop goods that nobody wants on top of him. Kermit, who is innocent, can only clench his frog-mouth and 堪 endure this cruel pawn shop punishment.

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