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7-9

sprinkle

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

jiao1 jiāo

Meaning


Primary

sprinkle

Alternatives

to sprinkle, sprinkles, sprinkled, sprinkling

Mnemonic


[ji-] Jimmy Neutron is in [1] front of the [-ao] barn, playing Go with a cow that sits in the grass opposite of him. Jimmy naturally is close to beating the cow, who in turn 浇 sprinkles the 尧 Go board with some milk 氵 sprayed from his utter to mess up the game. Thus, they reset the milk-浇 sprinkled 尧 Go board and start again. Jimmy is getting sick of this, it is the third time in a row this has happened.

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