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7-9

timid

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

que4 què

Meaning


Primary

timid

Alternatives

coward, cowardly, timidly

Mnemonic


[qu-] Quasimodo is in the [4] bathroom of the [-e] electricity plant where he is 怯 timidly holed up in one of the stalls. He is scared to exit because outside is a floating electric 忄 soul that is patrolling. He instead lays on his 厶 elbows in the stall and clutches some 土 soil 怯 timidly preparing for running out and attacking the 忄 soul with his 厶 elbows or 土 soil. But he is too 怯 timid to do so.

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