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7-9

to hold back

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

bie1 biē

Meaning


Primary

to hold back

Alternatives

hold back, holding back, holds back, holded back, to hold in, hold in, to suppress, suppress, suppressed, suppressing, suppresses

Mnemonic


[bi-] Bigfoot is in [1] front of the [-e] electricity plant where he is trying 憋 to hold back his anxious feelings. To do so he plugs a 敝 shredder into an electric socket to turn it on and rips out his 心 heart and puts it through the shredder. Finally his anxious feelings are 憋 held back, but so too is his life force. He collapses next to the 敝 shredder, dead.

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