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HSK
5

to cherish

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

xi1

Meaning


Primary

to cherish

Alternatives

cherish, cherishes, cherishing, cherished

Mnemonic


[xi-] Xena is in [1] front of the [-_] house on the lawn where she 惜 cherishes the beautiful turf. She rolls around in it under the 日 sun laughing as happy as she can be. She 惜 cherishes this time to recuperate from her warrior adventures. In fact she is so happy she dies and her 忄 soul begins to leave her body and float towards the 日 sun. She wished she 惜 cherished her time on the turf even more before her time was cut short.

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