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HSK
7-9

dust

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

chen2 chén

Meaning


Primary

dust

Mnemonic


[ch-] Charlie Brown is [2] inside the [-(e)n] infirmary where he works as a janitor. All around the sick beds are 小 small piles of 土 soil, and Charlie goes around trying to sweep them up. However, doing so just makes 尘 dust fly into the air, until the entirety of the ward is full of 尘 dust, making all of the patients cough and sneeze. A doctor and nurse come up to him and yell at him for making 尘 dust go everywhere.

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