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HSK
5

key

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

jian4 jiàn

Meaning


Primary

key

Alternatives

keyboard keys, keyboard key, keys

Hint

This refers to a button-like "key" that you press, not the type of key used to open doors.

Mnemonic


[ji-] Jimmy Neutron is in the [4] bathroom of the [-an] pawn shop where he is making a bunch of keyboard 键 keys in the sink. He uses a 聿 brush to paint a bunch of square pieces of rusty second-hand 钅 metal strips after he washes them in the dirty sink, then uses a special device to 廴 stretch them into keyboard 键 keys. He hopes to use them to make his own piano that he wants to sell to the pawn shop.

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