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HSK
3

to pick

Composition


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Pinyin

cai3 cǎi

Meaning


Primary

to pick

Alternatives

pick, picks, picking, picked, to pluck, pluck

Mnemonic


[c-] Casper is in the [3] basement of the haunted [-ai] high school, where he lives. A cursed gray-bark 木 tree grows in the middle of the cement floor. From it grows the strangest things: 扌 fingers and 爫 cleats. Casper goes around and 採 picks the 扌 fingers and 爫 cleats off the tree. He sells these to make his living, actually.

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