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HSK
7-9

take by the arm

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

chan1 chān

Meaning


Primary

take by the arm

Alternatives

takes by the arm, taking by the arm, help by the arm

Mnemonic


[ch-] Charlie Brown is in [1] front of the [-an] pawn shop where he finds a sick 兔 rabbit lying on the patchy lawn. Charlie Brown 攙 takes by the arm the sick rabbit and leads it to a 比 stack of second-hand 扌 fingers that is near the pawn shop front door. As he 攙 takes by the arm the 兔 rabbit, he uses a ⺈ dagger to skewer a 扌 finger and feed it into the 口 mouth of the 兔 rabbit to help bring it back to health.

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