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HSK
4

to sweep

Composition


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Pinyin

sao3 sǎo

Meaning


Primary

to sweep

Alternatives

sweep, swept, sweeps, sweeping

Mnemonic


[s-] Spongebob is in the [3] cellar of the [-ao] barn, 掃 sweeping it clean of all the 扌 fingers that litter the floor. He has taken a comically huge 彐 fork and wrapped a 巾 towel around it, and uses that 掃 to sweep the cellar. On his head he wears a 冖 crown that the cows gave him.

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