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HSK
7-9

claw

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

zhua3 zhuǎ

Meaning


Primary

claw

Alternatives

claws

Hint

In colloquial speech, this is almost always pronounced as zhuǎ. However, in more literary phrases, such as chengyu, it can sometimes be pronounced as zhǎo.

Mnemonic


[zhu-] George Costanza is in the [3] basement of the [-a] auditorium where he is looking for some 爪 claws that he will use in his play that he is starring in, Fat Man with 爪 Claws. He finally finds some and puts them on, then laughs as he says aloud a line from the play he has been rehearsing. "Everyone respects a fat man with 爪 claws, even if he is balding!"

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