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to disperse

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Pinyin

san4 sàn

Meaning


Primary

to disperse

Alternatives

disperse, dispersed, disperses, dispersing, to scatter, scatter

Mnemonic


[s-] Spongebob is in the [4] bathroom of the [-an] pawn shop where he works as a part-time employee. He works with the 攵 foreman to decorate the dirty pawn shop bathroom with a bunch of second-hand 月 moons and artificial turf that they recently obtained. Spongebob, who is super weak, 散 disperses the turf across the pawn shop floor by grabbing one piece of grass at a time. The strong 攵 foreman instead 散 disperses a bunch of 月 moons across the pawn shop ceiling by hanging them one at a time.

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