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HSK
7-9

scurry

Composition


Components

walking dollhouse
skewer

Sounds

Pinyin

cuan4 cuàn

Meaning


Primary

scurry

Alternatives

scurries, scurrying, scurried

Mnemonic


[cu-] Cupid is in the [4] bathroom of the [-an] pawn shop where he is dealing with a walking dollhouse problem. They have infested the entire dirty bathroom, and it is up to Cupid to try to clean them up. He flies around shooting second-hand dirty 串 skewers at them as the walking dollhouses 窜 scurry in all directions. They 窜 scurry so fast that Cupid misses most of his shots.