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7-9

timid

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

qie4 qiè

Meaning


Primary

timid

Alternatives

coward, cowardly, timidly

Mnemonic


[qi-] Kirby is in the [4] bathroom of the [-e] electricity plant where he is 怯 timidly holed up in one of the stalls. He is so 怯 timid that he has turned a pale white instead of his usual pink. He is scared to exit because outside is a floating electric 忄 soul that is patrolling. He instead grabs an electric 厶 elbow that is hanging up inside of the stall for some reason and starts to dig into the tile below, making a pile of 土 soil that he tosses in the fancy Japanese electronic toilet. He is so 怯 timid that he is going to dig his way out of this situation, no matter how long it takes.

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