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scold

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

chi4 chì

Meaning


Primary

scold

Alternatives

scolds, scolded, scolding

Mnemonic


[ch-] Charlie Brown is in the [4] bathroom of the [-_] house where there are 七 seven floating 口 mouths that hover around him while he is on the toilet. They all take turns 叱 scolding Charlie for a bunch of different things. Charlie sits there, sad as always, being 叱 scolded once again. He can never do anything right.

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