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7-9

to take a wife

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

qu3

Meaning


Primary

to take a wife

Alternatives

take a wife, took a wife, takes a wife, taking a wife, to marry, marry, marries, married, marrying, to marry a woman, marry a woman

Mnemonic


[qu-] Quasimodo is in the [3] basement of the [-_] house where he is finds a crippled 女 woman with no 耳 ears sitting on a 又 folding stool underneath the single bare basement lightbulb. Quasimodo is struck by her, uh, beauty, that he decides 娶 to take a wife right then and there. He rips off an 耳 ear and gives it to her and declares that they are married. He then grabs her and throws her onto his huge hunchback and begins to walk towards the basement stairs.

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