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to pour wine

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

zhen1 • zhēn

Meaning


Primary

to pour wine

Alternatives

pour wine, pours wine, pouring wine, poured wine, to pour tear, pour tear, pour tea, to pour, pour

Mnemonic Updated October 8, 2026


[zh-] James Bond is in [1] front of the [-(e)n] infirmary where he is an attendant for a lavish infirmary party that is being held on the lawn. He is wearing his usual tuxedo and has set up a bar on top of an overturned 其 clothes hamper and next to him is a 匚 box of ハ fins. As the nurses come up and order a drink, he 斟 pours wine into a 斗 measuring cup which serves as a glass and adds a ハ fin as a flourish. A strange drink.

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