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HSK
7-9

to survey

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

kan1 kān

Meaning


Primary

to survey

Alternatives

survey, surveys, surveying, surveyed

Mnemonic


[k-] Kermit is in [1] front of the [-an] pawn shop where he is 勘 surveying the land to see if he can open up his Sesame Street store here. He works with a 力 muscular arm who pushes a 其 clothes hamper full of 匚 boxes of 儿 legs. Kermit puts the 儿 legs carefully on the abandoned lawn next to the pawn shop, using them to measure how many 儿 legs long this 勘 surveyed land is.

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