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HSK
5

to embrace

Composition


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Sounds

Pinyin

yong1 yōng

Meaning


Primary

to embrace

Alternatives

embrace, embraces, embraced, to hug, hug, hugs, hugged, hugging

Mnemonic


[y-] Yoshi is in [1] front of the [-ong] temple where he is chilling in the rock garden playing a game co-operatively with a 扌 finger against some monks. On the other side of the rock garden is a 用 rack with things on it that one must knock over. Yoshi, an expert at this, knocks them all over from a distance with his green spotted eggs. Yoshi and the 扌 finger win, and are so excited they 拥 embrace each other! Even the losing monks 拥 embrace them too in a congratulatory manner.

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